Blogs from Santa Maria del Cami, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Well, I guess you might find this blog boring, nothing goes wrong, the weather is nice and we don't climb why mountains. We woke up this morning a little early to assess the bike situation, much to our delight Malcom came through and gave us bikes with much better tires I couldn't have been more please. His only miss was leaving the brake quick release lever (pronounce leeever- malcom is British) on all four wheels. I quickly place them in the down position and do a quick fail safe we are off. I suggest heading back to Pollenca without a sidetrack to the mountains. Our intent is to do a mountain climb that is on a peninsula near port Pollenca. The weather is warm and feeling great, so I decide to be a lovely wife and ... read more

Ahh where to start, I guess at the beginning, last night I decide I want to go to LLuc (pronounced yuk) which means my biggest cycling climb in my life. Two years ago we did Orient, this would take me to the real mountain range. I didn't mention it on yesterday's blog due to nerves. I get unusually nervous about stuff like this, I know I won't be the fastest that I'm fine with, failing not as fine with! A quick aside, I have two leaky heart valves not so leaky they need repaired yet but leaky enough that I sounds like I smoke when cycling uphill. I do not smoke, but I do love those candy cigarettes with the puff powder smoke, but who doesn't. So last night at dinner Ed starts telling me things ... read more

His whole blogging thing takes some getting used to. Thus that's why I ended mid word, niw the unfortunate part remembering what word... Ahh yes espresso, right I was deluded we somehow thought the jersey shore two years after our first bout would somehow improve. Well I'm here to say that Pauly D and Snookie missing as was bruce spring stein. Sad that we went from referencing the jersey shore with Bruce Springstein and we have downgraded to Pauly D, the situation and Snookie. That is truly sad and I have to wonder how The Boss feels about that? Ok so no improvement and btw it always rains when I am struggling with wind and traffic. So I am wearing our only cycling mirror I am going to digress for a second - shocking Germans who ... read more