Side note about Read's Hotel where we are staying. It is owned by a very nice British family who found an a 500 year old neglected estate in 1989 while at their vacation home in Mallorca. They purchase it and spent seven years restoring it to its current splendor. The owner said thank goodness he didn't know what he was getting into when he started this venture he thought it would take him 2 years at most. He used to be a lawyer in London, he found that the responsibility of owning a hotel is even more than a lawyer, because now he feels responsible for everyone who visits Read's enjoying their holiday to the utmost. They really make you feel at home here, so much so that we have had dinner here every night and ... read more

Good News, I fell asleep last night fast and woke with no headache, which means all systems go for another big day of cycling. We started of with a plan which we stuck to for the most part. We headed via bike path to St Eugenia, which is a lovely town, it is the one with the lovely windmill, actually many of the mallorcan towns have windmills that look very dutch. After a little research I found out that they were originally flour mills. Speaking of we saw what looked like fields of wheat near the shore. Some of them are still in use, most are not, and in one town they have converted it to a cafe. After Eugenia we headed to Algaida which is the home to cafe Suc. Friday is market day in ... read more

Happy Anniversary to us! We spent the day in a perfect way cycling ourselves silly. Our plan which did not end up working was to cycle from Santa Maria to Manacor to buy Mallorcan Pearls. Let me clarify, Mallorcan Pearls are supposed to look just like the real deal but are painstakingly made in a factory with fish scales. I am intrigued so we decided that jewelery is easy to carry so it was the one thing we could shop for on the bike. On our way we planned on having lunch in Sineu. We were 1.8 miles down the road and realized that while we had some Euros in our pocket we did not have a credit card so Ed headed back to the room to get his wallet and told me to keep going, ... read more

Well, let me just say that even a little positive encouragement is all I need to keep blogging so remember, at least a few of you asked for it. I have to backtrack to last night at dinner where we again tried to eat the breadbasket. There are two things in life that Ed hates, live music and having the chef visit your table. Now this is not meant to offend anyone who enjoys these things, but for Ed it is the equivalent to locking him in a room with snakes. Of course if the live music is Neil Diamond I think he would make an exception, Ed is a big Neil Diamond fan. So now you are thinking there was live music and the chef visited our table. No, the music was elevator versions of ... read more

Well, I have to admit that my first attempt at blogging was a little disastrous. I started typing about our time here in Mallorca only to have my computer lose the wifi connection and could not find what I had typed. Enough whining. Our flight from NY to Madrid was uneventful in the sense that we had dinner and then slept. Dinner was good, which surprised both of us because we were expecting it to be pretty bad. Since we did not eat prior to boarding the flight we were pleasantly surprised. I took Advil PM as soon as the flight took off so by the time they served dinner I was literally falling asleep in my crab cakes. I slept soundly until thirty minutes prior to landing. I am getting ready to take my Advil ... read more