Alicante was still hot in late September, and the shade by the port didn’t reach far. A woman stepped out of it with her orange umbrella already up, tilting it against the sun as she walked.

I could have done with an umbrella TBH. Local temperatures hit 30C, and we ducked into the nearby “The Ocean Race” Museum. The air-conditioned museum that was a haven for us on a hot afternoon!

Above the promenade at El Postiguet in Alicante is a walkway to the town where you can find a neat place to photograph passing people against the cubed background.

Those ground tiles remind me of Q*bert or Marble Madness which I’ve only seen but never played. What I did play was Gyroscope, the first disc-based game I had for the C64. Great game. Very tough!

The sun went down behind Páirc Uí Chaoimh and turned the sky a deep orange. The construction cranes in the background are building massive apartment blocks that will change the face of the area once residents move in. A far cry from the dust coal yard of Suttons and Sheehan and Sullivan on Centre Park Road.

The sun was high in Alicante, but the tall buildings and narrow streets cast deep shadows I took advantage of. The horizontal lines of this primary school had to be black and white.

I looked it up on Google Maps and found it here, but if you look at Street View, the only images are from 2008, when it was simply a car park! I wondered why I wasn’t seeing the school until I noticed the date!

Óbidos in September was full of day-trippers, and most of them were taking photos of the same narrow street. The street is filled with people and little shops and it’s very pretty!

A moment after yesterday’s photo of Óbidos I spotted a man taking a break in the sun. There were a lot of people about so I don’t blame him for wanting to take a moment to sit down.

It was very hot in Óbidos, and this couple had settled against a low parapet with their dog stretched out on the paving beside them. I would have gone looking for shade. I only noticed later that the woman was wearing a denim jacket!

I love the negative space of ground, wall, and sky. The yellow border of the wall is such a nice feature. The whitewashed wall reflects the heat, and the yellow frames it.

I stayed on the roof after the sun set. There wasn’t much cloud in the sky, but a haze on the horizon caught the glow of the disappeared sun and lit up the edge of that expanse.

Soon after, a neon sign lit up on the roof of a building opposite declaring its love for the city.

A couple were singing “Time to Say Goodbye” under the gate as we left Óbidos, which suited us since we were leaving the town.

Alpino is a Spanish brand of school colouring pencils, and here the box had been blown up to the size of a door and hung in the MACA’s temporary exhibition on colour.

I really enjoyed visiting the Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante, and not just because it was 30C outside. They have interesting exhibits, and photographing the people admiring the art work was as much an attraction as the pieces themselves.