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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/3/2021: a Sunday drive with my daughter
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 21:36:00 +0000
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Congrats to Monica on her new licence. She looks delighted - a great 
memento. Her own car next, I presume :-)

Douglas


On 07/03/2021 19:07, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> My daughter Monica passed her driving test 10 days ago, on her third 
> attempt, not at all uncommon here?they are strict. So the last two 
> weekends we have been driving around to let her have some more practice. 
> Today was a rainy day so I could not go for my usual Sunday bike ride. 
> Instead, Monica and I took a long Sunday drive, which gave her the 
> opportunity to drive on the motorway and also curvy mountain roads, in the 
> rain?good experience.
>
> Here she is, behind the wheel and enjoying it:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-fsKj5M8/A
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> We drove to Tibi, a village about 40 km from Alicante, nestled in the 
> mountains at about 600 m altitude:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-BKP79DB/A
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> There, we visited La Queser?a del Valle de Tibi, the cheese shop run by 
> Lili and her husband Julio. He takes care of the goats, she makes the 
> cheese and runs the shop. They sell retail and also to many restaurants in 
> Alicante, a business that has obviously suffered during the past year. So 
> I was pleased to see the shop well stocked and doing well apparently, and 
> so was Monica:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-9PPNVDG/A
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> In the adjacent room is the cheese production facility. I noticed that 
> Julio was working there, a rare sight. Perhaps they had to lay off the 
> woman who was helping Lili with the cheese, so he needs to pitch in. I 
> stuck the lens through the window separating the shop from the cheese 
> workshop and started snapping:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vqKhv7C/A
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> When Julio noticed, he greeted me nicely:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-tcdBdgw/A
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> A nice outing, and we came home with some nice cheese.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
> Alicante, Spain
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
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Replies: Reply from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/3/2021: a Sunday drive with my daughter)
In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/3/2021: a Sunday drive with my daughter)