[Leica] Nathan's PAD 2/5/2020: free at last!

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Good to see, Nathan, and beats photographing bakery queues!
Douglas


On 03/05/2020 11:19, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Yesterday, 48 days of confinement ended. As from 6 a.m., people aged 14-69 
> were allowed out to take walks and exercise, as long as social distancing 
> rules were respected, no swimming in the sea, when out running or cycling, 
> stay within your municipality, respect the time slots (6-10 and 20-23) 
> etc. So not complete freedom but vastly more than we have had for the past 
> 7 weeks. So I got up at 6 and by 8 I was on my bicycle, cycling towards 
> the hills along the beach road:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kDkXgcx/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kDkXgcx/A>
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> After about 8 km, I was at the foothills?how I have missed going there! 
> Exercising on a bike on rollers on my front porch has kept me in shape, 
> but it cannot be compared with being out there in the landscape:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-cQzWBSC/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-cQzWBSC/A>
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> I cycled as far up as I was allowed to. Fortunately, El Campello is a 
> fairly big municipality, so I was able to get within less than 2 km of 
> Aig?es and enjoy the view of Alicante from up there:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QJNz6XS/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QJNz6XS/A>
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> On my way back, I stopped in the fishing harbour. The boats were in and 
> the fishermen were arranging the nets and whatnot:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xjPKxr6/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xjPKxr6/A>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zrDPcsS/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zrDPcsS/A>
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> There were some people on the beach, and a few contravened the prohibition 
> against bathing, but in general people are respecting the restrictions. 
> Nobody wants to risk a spike in infections and a new lockdown:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-PW7HLSL/A 
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-PW7HLSL/A>
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> Today I cycled again in the morning, and in the evening I will go for a 
> walk on the beach, just as I did last night.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
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