{"id":2400,"date":"2019-01-14T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2400"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:28:24","slug":"week-01-welcoming-2019-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=2400","title":{"rendered":"Week 01: Welcoming 2019 with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s blog begins on the last day of 2018 and ends on the first Sunday of 2019, when I was waiting in Alicante airport for the arrival of my friend Lars from Denmark, who was coming to visit me for a week. But of course, the main focus of the week was to celebrate New Year’s Eve with our Spanish friends, in style and informally at the same time.<\/p>\n

1_1<\/strong>
\nI wanted to see the sunrise on the last day of 2018, and it was a glorious one at that:
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1_2<\/strong>
\nIt was crisp and cold, but other people were out enjoying the beach also at this early hour:
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1_3<\/strong>
\nLater in the day, I cycled to Agost. As always, part of the pleasure of the ride was the landscape:
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1_4<\/strong>
\nOn the square in Agost, holiday decorations of a different kind:
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1_5<\/strong>
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1_6<\/strong>
\nOutside Agost there are a number of outlets selling garden ceramics. Mostly kitschy stuff, but strangely impressive:
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1_7<\/strong>
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1_8<\/strong>
\nAnd then evening arrived and it was time to welcome the New Year with our friends. The party was hosted by Roberto and Mariluz in Benidorm:
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1_9<\/strong>
\nThere was lots of delicious food:
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1_10<\/strong>
\nI\u00c3\u00b1aki, getting ready:
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1_11<\/strong>
\nNereyda, enjoying herself:
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1_12<\/strong>
\nPreparing for midnight:
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1_13<\/strong>
\nA lovely smile:
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1_14<\/strong>
\nThen the clock struck midnight, we ate our 12 grapes of luck, and wished each other a Happy New Year:
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1_15<\/strong>
\nSince I was not going to drive the 45 km back to Alicante after celebrating New Year’s Eve, we took advantage of our hosts’ kind offer of a bedroom for the night. On New Year’s Day I got up early and went for a walk in the neighbourhood. This suburb of Benidorm is called La Nuc\u00c3\u00ada and is built in the hills above the city:
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1_16<\/strong>
\nI walked around a bit, taking pictures of this and that, including these wild cacti:
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1_17<\/strong>
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1_18<\/strong>
\nI had taken the bicycle with me in the car, so I was able to start the new year with a ride. I cycled to Platja Bon Nou in Villajoyosa, one of the nicest beaches in the area:
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1_19<\/strong>
\nOn the way back to the house, I photographed this anti-multiculturalism message on a garbage container:
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1_20<\/strong>
\nBack at the house, the aftermath of the party was beginning. Roberto was peeling the vegetables for the cocido<\/em>:
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1_21<\/strong>
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1_22<\/strong>
\nMariluz’s cat, a most dignified creature, allowed me to make this portrait:
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1_23<\/strong>
\nThe cocido<\/em> in the works:
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1_24<\/strong>
\nRoberto serves the broth:
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1_25<\/strong>
\nAnd then the vegetables:
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1_26<\/strong>
\nReady for us to enjoy:
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1_27<\/strong>
\nMy kind of dessert:
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1_28<\/strong>
\nLooking for her share:
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1_29<\/strong>
\nJust a random photo of trees illuminated by the setting sun, taken in a nearby park:
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1_30<\/strong>
\nI went back to work on Thursday, for two quiet days. I took the opportunity to air out my Leica M8 by making portraits of some of the few people who were at the office, such as our secretary Kasia:
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1_31<\/strong>
\nTamara:
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1_32<\/strong>
\nOn Sunday I found myself at Alicante airport, waiting for my friend Lars to arrive from Copenhagen. As I usually do on such occasions, I turned my camera towards the other people waiting in the arrivals hall:
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