Nice place. Compelling. I could spend some time kicked back in a place such as
that.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On May 10, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Busot is a village in the mountains surrounding Alicante. It is one of the
> places on my usual cycling route. Right now, I am still too weak to cycle up
> there (by next weekend I should be able to), so instead I filled the back
> seat of my car with camera bags and drove up there this morning. This was a
> nice opportunity to photograph places that I often pass on the bike but
> rarely stop (and obviously, I do not have my Leica M8 or the Fuji medium
> format with me when I cycle).
>
> The streets in Busot are steep. In many ways, it is a very traditional place
> but in recent years northern Europeans have bought houses there, so even this
> small village is becoming more international. The attraction for the
> foreigners is the laid back lifestyle, absence of crime, lower prices, and
> generally peace and quiet compared to what you have on the coast. And the
> beach is no more than 10-11 km away.
>
> Twenty pictures are here, 19 of which are from today (the first one is an
> establishing shot from last year; I included it to show the location of the
> village). Since I was there in the morning (around 11), not many people were
> out and about. The Spanish sleep late on weekends.
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Busot
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