{"id":30122,"date":"2016-10-28T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=30122"},"modified":"2016-10-28T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:22:51","slug":"first-glimpses-of-my-mediterranean-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/first-glimpses-of-my-mediterranean-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"First Glimpses of My Mediterranean Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had another good night of sleep. The room is very quiet and like my room in Alicante, it has exterior blinds that allow for a complete blackout. Add in a decent bed and I’ve got good sleeping conditions.<\/p>\n

I wanted to complete a fairly large job before the invoicing deadline today, so I got cracking on that. With about an hour of work left to do on it, I took a break to make something I have been craving for four months: roasted chicken. Or, rather, roasted chicken breast, having bought yesterday a really huge one with the bones in! I had brined the chicken overnight, so I dried it off, seared it, and then roasted it over a bed of veggies. It came out perfectly, so tender, juicy, and flavourful! I have heaps of leftovers I look forward to enjoying.<\/p>\n

By about four, the job was done and I started on my weekend work, knowing more was incoming. Not only did I have the stamina to do that, but I hadn’t felt the least bit of a need for a nap and… I wanted to go for a walk! I’m almost better!<\/p>\n

So off I went to explore the very nearby beach and malec\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Here I am looking towards Cabo\u00a0de Gata.<\/p>\n

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It’s not a nice sandy beach, but rather gravel. My host explained that the beach got washed away every winter, so the authorities finally built a series of jetties to control the erosion and then covered the beach in pea gravel. The jetties seem to be working.<\/p>\n

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The jetties aren’t meant to be walked on, but I wasn’t the only one who had fun hopping from stone to stone to get to the end of one!<\/p>\n

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I cannot believe the colour of the Mediterranean! I thought I got a couple of good shots in Alicante, but it looks like it really is turquoise!<\/p>\n

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So Cabo de gata again.<\/p>\n

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And looking towards the African continent, less than 200KM away…<\/p>\n

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Looking back towards my neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

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Our lovely Malec\u00f3n. It ends a couple of blocks away in the direction I’m facing, but I’m not sure how long it is in the other direction.<\/p>\n

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I could be in a suburban Mexican neighbourhood, like Playa Sur or just off the Golden Zone in Maz.<\/p>\n

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This is where I had my first tapas! It has been fully renovated recently.<\/p>\n

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It’s going to be a working weekend, but I am taking Sunday morning off to go explore the market my host told me about. Hopefully, I’ll be back to full speed by the start of the week so I can take my first bus ride and get further orientated as to greater Almer\u00eda as I’ll already be one week down into a seven-week stay. My time here is going to fly by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had another good night of sleep. The room is very quiet and like my room in Alicante, it has exterior blinds that allow for a complete blackout. Add in a decent bed and I’ve got good sleeping conditions. I wanted to complete a fairly large job before the invoicing deadline today, so I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1485,636,1484,3],"tags":[731,794],"class_list":["post-30122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almeria","category-europe","category-spain","category-travel","tag-beaches","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}