Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I cannot fathom, for the life of me, why people brave the conditions for hours to watch a bunch of cyclists in colourful clothes whizzing past for a few seconds. It makes watching a cricket match for 6 hours a day, for 5 days, with no winner at the end of it, very rational in comparison. ? Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 1:20?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > There are 3 grand tours in professional cycling?the Giro d?Italia in the > spring, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a Espa?a in > August/September. Today, the 8th stage of the Vuelta passed through what I > call ?my playground?, the mountains in the interior of Alicante province. > As usual, I picked a spot to watch the race that would allow for good photo > opportunities: going uphill (meaning relatively slow speed) and late in the > stage, so that the peloton would be broken up into several groups. I drove > to a bar 6 km from the penultimate mountain pass of the stage, a place > which I visit on two wheels myself, and things worked out great. I had a > nice vantage point and took a lot of photos. These are the initial serving > that I particularly liked: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/ > > Tomorrow, I will climb the Carrasqueta on bicycle (unless it is > raining?cycling uphill on wet roads is OK but descending on wet curvy roads > is not OK). > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information