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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 2/5/2020: free at last!
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 20:39:10 +0530
References: <204A04E1-BBF9-417C-9CE9-116EE982FEDB@frozenlight.eu>

Liberation!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 3:50 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
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.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
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> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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> YNWA
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> "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"
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