{"id":826,"date":"2012-10-15T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=826"},"modified":"2012-10-15T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:38:24","slug":"week-41-my-sister-comes-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=826","title":{"rendered":"Week 41: my sister comes to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big event last week was the annual visit of my sister and brother-in-law. They live in Poland, and always come to visit us in October. <\/p>\n<p><strong>41_1<\/strong><br \/>\nMy brother-in-law is 74, but a very young 74. And he loves the pool. Within 30 minutes of arriving at our house from the airport, he did this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_1.jpg\" alt=\"L1008178\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_2<\/strong><br \/>\nAs always, when someone is in the pool, Cheeta hangs around, hoping for an invitation to join in:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_2.jpg\" alt=\"L1008182\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_3<\/strong><br \/>\nThen we sat down for a lunch consisting of Spanish, Polish and Danish food, sprinkled with Polish vodka and other good things:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_3.jpg\" alt=\"L1008184\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_4<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the afternoon, we went to the Game Caf\u00c3\u00a9 to drink mojitos and watch the amateur aging rockers:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_4.jpg\" alt=\"L1008195\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_5<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is a bar outside and inside. Walter supervises the mixing:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_5.jpg\" alt=\"L1008193\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_6<\/strong><br \/>\nI was not the only photographer there:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_6.jpg\" alt=\"L1008197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then a couple of street details from Alicante.<\/p>\n<p><strong>41_7<\/strong><br \/>\nPoster remnant:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_7.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0871\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_8<\/strong><br \/>\nBike path:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0879\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_9<\/strong><br \/>\nProtest sign &#8220;There are not too many workers, there are too many thieves&#8221;, referring to bankers and politicians:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_9.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0885\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of visitors at the office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>41_10<\/strong><br \/>\nBeatrice brought her baby girl to analyse the strategic plan of the office:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_10.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0876\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_11<\/strong><br \/>\nCaroline is Dutch and Bente is Danish:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_11.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0886\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few photos taking while cycling come next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>41_12<\/strong><br \/>\nChildren outside the church in Aig\u00c3\u00bces:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_12.jpg\" alt=\"_1000260\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_13<\/strong><br \/>\nThe annual Moros y Cristianos festival was going in El Campello this weekend. I passed this vehicle and stopped to take a picture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_13.jpg\" alt=\"_1000263\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_14<\/strong><br \/>\nThey had a passenger in the back:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_14.jpg\" alt=\"_1000265\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took my sister to eat at Hostal Maruja, the beach restaurant south of Santa Pola that was going to close for the winter a couple of days later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>41_15<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of their specialties, chorizo in cider:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_15.jpg\" alt=\"_1000272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_16<\/strong><br \/>\nThe scene was definitely not wintry, although the beach is beginning to look desolate:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_16.jpg\" alt=\"_1000270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_17<\/strong><br \/>\nThe water is certainly still warm enough:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_17.jpg\" alt=\"_1000275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_18<\/strong><br \/>\nLater, we stopped at the harbour in El Campello to see if the cats were still around:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_18.jpg\" alt=\"_1000286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_19<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday was my sister&#8217;s birthday, and I was going make a nice lamb roast. We went to the Mercado Central in the morning. I noticed that flowers had been put on the plaque commemorating one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War, the bombardment of the square behind the Mercado in 1938 which left more than 300 people dead:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_19.jpg\" alt=\"L1008208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_20<\/strong><br \/>\nInside the Mercado, I set about photographing people as I usually do. Here, a little girl is looking at the rabbits on display:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_20.jpg\" alt=\"L1008210\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_21<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Mercado has three main parts. Upstairs is the meat, and downstairs the fish and vegetables. The fish section provides the most spectacular views:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_21.jpg\" alt=\"L1008219\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_22<\/strong><br \/>\nFishmonger at work:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_22.jpg\" alt=\"L1008220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_23<\/strong><br \/>\nA sad creature, waiting for its human:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_23.jpg\" alt=\"L1008226\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_24<\/strong><br \/>\nThe next day, we drove to Lorca, a town in the Murcia province about 150 km from Alicante, which was hit by a deadly earthquake last year. The town is located close to the Andalusia border, and its fort was an important military installation in the Middle Ages:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_24.jpg\" alt=\"L1008240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_25<\/strong><br \/>\nThere a spectacular view of the town from the Castillo:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_25.jpg\" alt=\"L1008229\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_26<\/strong><br \/>\nAn equally spectacular sun dial:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_26.jpg\" alt=\"L1008233\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_27<\/strong><br \/>\nThe earthquake damaged buildings, old and new:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_27.jpg\" alt=\"L1008242\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_28<\/strong><br \/>\nChurch with caved-in roof:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_28.jpg\" alt=\"L1008246\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_29<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are many gutted buildings in Lorca. The townspeople complain bitterly of the slowness with which government aid has arrived:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_29.jpg\" alt=\"L1008252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final two pictures are from my back porch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>41_30<\/strong><br \/>\nMy late mother&#8217;s cactus greeted my sister&#8217;s visit with a rare double bloom:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_30.jpg\" alt=\"DSF0883\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>41_31<\/strong><br \/>\nEven when it rains, my brother-in-law jumps in the pool. As he says, he is getting wet anyway:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/41_31.jpg\" alt=\"L1008257\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big event last week was the annual visit of my sister and brother-in-law. They live in Poland, and always come to visit us in October. 41_1 My brother-in-law is 74, but a very young 74. And he loves the pool. Within 30 minutes of arriving at our house from the airport, he did this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}