{"id":1590,"date":"2016-04-15T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1590"},"modified":"2016-04-15T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:20:09","slug":"week-15-santa-pola-maastricht-eindhoven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=1590","title":{"rendered":"Week 15: Santa Pola, Maastricht, Eindhoven"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week began at home, but on Wednesday afternoon I flew to Maastricht where I was going to attend a course at the European Institute of Public Administration on Thursday and Friday. After that, I stayed in the Netherlands for the weekend, visiting old friends in Eindhoven on Friday evening. I present the week’s pictures more or less chronologically.<\/p>\n

15_1<\/strong>
\nI start with a couple of morning dog walk images. First, close parking:
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15_2<\/strong>
\nMorning sun in the park:
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15_3<\/strong>
\nObservation post. The birds are monitoring me, because I leave food for the stray cats and the pigeons like to partake of it as well (once the cats are done, of course):
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15_4<\/strong>
\nSunset over the golf course, seen from my roof terrace:
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15_5<\/strong>
\nA rainy morning on my street:
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15_6<\/strong>
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15_7<\/strong>
\nCats prowling in the darkness:
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15_8<\/strong>
\nOn Sunday I cycled to Santa Pola and took a short break in the harbour:
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15_9<\/strong>
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15_10<\/strong>
\nCouple with dog, along the road from Santa Pola to Arenales del Sol:
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15_11<\/strong>
\nOn Wednesday I had lunch with my wife and our daughter. Monica was going back to Cardiff on Saturday, and I was flying to Maastricht later that afternoon, so this was the last meal together this time around. We went to Bodhigreen, one of Alicante’s vegetarian restaurants:
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15_12<\/strong>
\nThe salad:
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15_13<\/strong>
\nMexican plate:
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15_14<\/strong>
\nVegan chocolate cake. The food at Bhodigreen is excellent, vegan or not:
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The rest of the images are from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

15_15<\/strong>
\nI arrived at my hotel in Maastricht around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. After checking in etc., I ventured out to look for a bar with good beer on tap that I remembered from a previous visit. This is the view along the way, the other shore of the river Maas:
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15_16<\/strong>
\nThe bar is called De Poshoorn, and it has nice decor and good beer at reasonable prices:
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15_17<\/strong>
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15_18<\/strong>
\nI lingered at the bar too long; in the Netherlands, by 10 p.m. the kitchens in the restaurants are already closed, so my only option for dinner was this kebab place in front of the train station:
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15_19<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday morning, I walked from my hotel to EIPA. This is typical morning traffic in the centre, here on Sint Servaas bridge:
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15_20<\/strong>
\nThe Maas is spanned by several bridges. This one is called Hoge Brug:
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15_21<\/strong>
\nFace on Sint Servaas Brug:
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15_22<\/strong>
\nEIPA is located on Onze Lieve Vrouw square, opposite Maastricht’s main church. It is a lovely little square. Here a man waits for his wife who is inside the small chapel in the background:
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15_23<\/strong>
\nThis part of the Netherlands is mostly Catholic, and quite a few people pop into this little shrine to light a candle and offer a quick prayer:
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15_24<\/strong>
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15_25<\/strong>
\nReflections:
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15_26<\/strong>
\nNormally non-food shops in most of the Netherlands close early, at 6 p.m. But in every town there is a koopavond <\/em>one day each week when the shops stay open until 9 p.m. In Maastricht that day is Thursday, so after the course ended, I went out to explore the city on foot. People and pets were out and about:
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15_27<\/strong>
\nOn the Markt square:
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15_28<\/strong>
\nMaastricht is full of art in the streets:
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15_29<\/strong>
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15_30<\/strong>
\nThe goal of my walk was the Dominicanenkerk, a 700-year old church that had fallen into disuse and was later restored and converted to a bookshop:
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15_31<\/strong>
\nThe bookshop has been written about in The Guardian newspaper, so a few tourists like me stop by, but mostly the shoppers are local:
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15_32<\/strong>
\nThe caf\u00c3\u00a9:
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15_33<\/strong>
\nAfterwards, I walked around a bit more. The shopping was slowly winding down, and the bars and restaurants were filling up:
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15_34<\/strong>
\nOn the way back to my hotel, I once again photographed Hoge Brug, this time with some ominous clouds above it:
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15_35<\/strong>
\nFriday morning detail, on my way back to EIPA:
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15_36<\/strong>
\nJust inside the EIPA entrance, there is a small statue:
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After the course finished on Friday afternoon, I took the train to Maastricht to visit Anna and Geert, a couple whose wedding I photographed almost exactly 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

15_37<\/strong>
\nI received a warm welcome:
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15_38<\/strong>
\nWe spent a nice evening, talking about this and that:
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15_39<\/strong>
\nSix-year old Nora helps her dad make pizza:
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15_40<\/strong>
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15_41<\/strong>
\nAfter dinner, I made this portrait of two sets of mother and daughter:
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15_42<\/strong>
\nThen Nora did a guitar lesson:
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15_43<\/strong>
\nAnd finally, Geert joined in as well. It was a very nice, calm evening, at the end of which Geert and Nora walked back to my hotel with me:
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More pictures from Maastricht can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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