{"id":252,"date":"2015-07-22T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.wordpress.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2019-08-29T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T21:11:12","slug":"beach-la-playa-de-la-pobla-de-farnals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.org\/everythingelse\/2015\/07\/22\/beach-la-playa-de-la-pobla-de-farnals\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaches….. La Playa de la Pobla de Farnals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La playa de la P0bla de Farnals, a typical Mediterranean beach…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first saw la playa de la Pobla, I thought it was very ugly. Small beach backed up against ugly buildings, no waves (ok very tiny waves), litter, and too many people in summer. I was used to Californian beaches, broad expanses of deep sand, huge waves, dunes, coves, relatively few people. I still prefer the Pacific… I spent four years in Humboldt County, California, with views of the ocean from my deck. Northern California.<\/p>\n

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College Cove, McKinleyville, California… a far cry from the coast of Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But one gets used to smaller, crowded beaches, where much of the point seems to be <\/em>people: talking to friends, taking note of what the fashion is in bathing suits, towels, chairs, sunglasses, flipflops, whatever.  Watching people get their daily exercise walking up and down the beach.  Measuring muscle and fat carefully, in order to categorize everyone as thinner than or fatter than you, your friends, your family, and so on.
\nAnd it’s very colorful!
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\nand you see all types of bodies. Some men look more pregnant than the obviously pregnant women \ud83d\ude1b  definitely makes one less self-conscious…<\/p>\n

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People walk up and down the beach all day, in all sorts of bathing suits covering all types of bodies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The previous pictures were taken around noon. In the evening, there are chiringuitos, or small bars, along the beach. Not yet as many as in Cadiz, a province of Andalucia in the south, but more than when I first started coming to Valencia (when there were bars aplenty, and some kioskos near the beach, but no chiringuitos on<\/em> the beach.
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