Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Howard. All the signs in Busot are in Valenciano, a local dialect of Catalan and the official language in the Comunitat Valenciana, to which Alicante belongs. In the bigger towns like Alicante, signs are in both Spanish and Valenciano; but in small places like Busot, especially inland, they are in Valenciano only. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On May 11, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Howard Ritter wrote: > Thanks for posting these pictures, Nathan. Really interesting look at > aspects of Spanish village life, and dramatic scenics too. > > I noted some significant differences from Spanish on the commemorative > plaque with the quotation from Isaiah and on the road sign. Is that > Catalan? > > ?howard > > > On May 10, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > 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 >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >