[Leica] IMG: La Vuelta a España 2023

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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 España 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:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/
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> 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).
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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