[Leica] Nathan's PAD 4/12/2022: a bike ride in Andalusia

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

70k is pretty good, Nathan and the coastal road looked interesting. Is 
that some sort of coastal fort jutting out in that photo?

On Moj?car, my youngest stayed for a couple of weeks there in 2009 with 
school pals after his Leaving Cert in an apartment of one of the 
parents. He did say the water was nice, but wasn't a fan of the place. 
There was a rush of Irish people buying apartments there back in the 
early noughties, and I knew another one who went mad and actually bought 
a bar out there . No bar experience, but it apparently seemed like a 
good idea at the time...

Douglas


On 05/12/2022 11:37, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> This is a 4-day weekend for many people in Spain, becase Tuesday Dec. 6th 
> is a national holiday, so everyone who can has taken Monday off to create 
> ?a bridge? as we call it. My wife is playing in a golf tournament in a 
> small town about 200 km south of Alicante, just south of the border 
> between the autonomous regions of Murcia and Andaluc?a (the nearest bigger 
> city is Almer?a). We are staying at a resort right on the coast, and while 
> my wife plays golf I ride my bike, exploring the local roads. Yesterday I 
> cycled south along a very nice coastal route. Five images follow.
>
> This part of Spain is a mix of tourism and agriculture?a high share of the 
> vegetables consumed in Spain and in Europe is grown in this region. This 
> was the view right at the start of my ride:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3bp7gvc/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3bp7gvc/A>
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> The coastal road was truly lovely. The town in the distance is called 
> Villaricos:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZP496cK/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-ZP496cK/A>
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> I stopped for a few minutes in Villaricos:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-j4SZbBf/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-j4SZbBf/A>
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> I continued cycling south from Villaricos. The landscape became flat and 
> the cycling was easy, but the beatiful coastal views were gradually 
> replaced by urban sprawl. This is in the town Playa de Vera. A bit surreal 
> to see Santa while it is a sunny 20C:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-z4n8jvM/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-z4n8jvM/A>
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> Still futher south, the town of Garrucha, now full tourist mode. I should 
> not knock it, I am a tourist here myself, and the sea and sunshine 
> provides people with a living. But it does not make for a particularly 
> attractive view, so I continued a few km more to a town called Mojac?r, 
> where I turned around and headed back to our hotel:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rPzKZSZ/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rPzKZSZ/A>
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> Still, it was a nice few hours on two wheels, and a 70 km ride is always a 
> good thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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