A beautiful ride. I like Lili with her cheeses the best, though.
Tina
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:24 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday, I chose the village of Tibi as my cycling destination, both
> because it is a good training ride (70 km with a total of 1100 meters of
> climbing) and because it was a chance to visit Lili’s goat cheese shop.
> Four images.
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> La Quesería del Valle de Tibi with my bicycle parked outside. The
> handlebar bag contains the camera used to take these pictures, my phone,
> wallet and some other odds and ends—and it had space for a small amount of
> goat cheese:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-csQcjrh/A
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> Lili with a plate of her cheeses. Her husband tends the goats, she makes
> the cheese. She is usually very self-conscious about posing, but yesterday
> she was in the middle of making a YouTube video about her shop and the
> cheese “factory” next to it, so she was a more extrovert mode:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7X5Zc72/A
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> Tibi lies in a valley, but not at the bottom of it; to get into the town
> there is first a steep downhill to cross the river at the bottom of the
> valley, followed by a very sharp climb of about 1 km to get to the centre
> of the town. Then, to get out of Tibi on the road towards Jijona and
> Alicante, you go a bit downhill, on a wonderfully curved road like this:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RmqBpHN/A
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> …followed by a 3 km climb to the Puerto de Tibi pass, with some rather
> steep sections. On reaching the pass, one is rewarded with this view:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-PgxgzcZ/A
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> And a delightful long descent into Jijona, about 5 km, during which I
> achieve speeds up to 70 km/h. It is possible to go even faster but I am too
> chicken for that.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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