Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I smiled when I saw the hairpin turn photo with its two-part highway information sign.? There's a lot going on in that stretch of highway! Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 3/11/2019 1:24 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Yesterday, I chose the village of Tibi as my cycling destination, both > because it is a good training ride (70 km with a total of 1100 meters of > climbing) and because it was a chance to visit Lili?s goat cheese shop. > Four images. > > La Queser?a del Valle de Tibi with my bicycle parked outside. The > handlebar bag contains the camera used to take these pictures, my phone, > wallet and some other odds and ends?and it had space for a small amount of > goat cheese: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-csQcjrh/A > > Lili with a plate of her cheeses. Her husband tends the goats, she makes > the cheese. She is usually very self-conscious about posing, but yesterday > she was in the middle of making a YouTube video about her shop and the > cheese ?factory? next to it, so she was a more extrovert mode: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7X5Zc72/A > > Tibi lies in a valley, but not at the bottom of it; to get into the town > there is first a steep downhill to cross the river at the bottom of the > valley, followed by a very sharp climb of about 1 km to get to the centre > of the town. Then, to get out of Tibi on the road towards Jijona and > Alicante, you go a bit downhill, on a wonderfully curved road like this: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RmqBpHN/A > > ?followed by a 3 km climb to the Puerto de Tibi pass, with some rather > steep sections. On reaching the pass, one is rewarded with this view: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-PgxgzcZ/A > > And a delightful long descent into Jijona, about 5 km, during which I > achieve speeds up to 70 km/h. It is possible to go even faster but I am > too chicken for that. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >