[Leica] Nathan's PAD 3/7/2022: sometimes a detour is not bad

[Nathan Wajsman]

Well, the ride started around 7 a.m. and the picture was taken around 9 a.m. Several hours away from beer time ;-)

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.frozenlight.eu

YNWA




> On 4 Jul 2022, at 19:26, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> The sunflowers were shyly turning away because we know why Nathan stops his
> bike in the middle of nowhere . . . He has processed the lunch beer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
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> On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 12:18 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
>> Always nice to travel somewhere new. The sunflowers look disappointed -
>> must be the lack of sun.
>> 
>> D
>> 
>> On 04/07/2022 10:21, Nathan wrote:
>>> On Saturday my wife played in a golf tournament, at La Mange Golf Resort
>> near Cartagena, about 140 km from Alicante. We decided to make a weekend
>> getaway out of this, and spent 2 nights at a nice hotel right next to the
>> golf course (our balcony was facing the green on the 18th hole). I was the
>> driver and trailing spouse, but thanks to having a decent-sized car, we
>> were able to bring my bike with us in addition to my wife's golf stuff and
>> other baggage, and I went for rides both Saturday and yesterday.
>>> 
>>> Yesterday's ride was going to be a relatively short 27 km affair,
>> getting out at 7 a.m. But when I was planning the route, Google neglected
>> to tell me that a section of about 4 km on my planned route was unpaved and
>> completely unsuitable for my road bike with skinny tires. So the ride
>> turned out about 12 km longer than planned since I had to take a longish
>> detour. But there was a nice side effect. I passed this sunflower field in
>> lovely morning light:
>>> 
>>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MWS79cS/A
>>> 
>>> In the far distance you can just make out the ugly urban sprawl of
>> hotels and vacation apartments on La Manga.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>> 
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://http://www.greatpix.eu
>>> 
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>>> 
>>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
>>> 
>>> YNWA
>>> 
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