No Capeesh

Today we are back to riding.  Weather is clearing, rain has stopped, temperature still cool and we do have low clouds, but hey, I can get back on the bike. It's after 9am as there was a lot of fog, but as we are riding along, we notice there are some oldies out, guys of course, maybe locals?  The young guns of last week are gone.  

We choose to do the reverse Col du Honor and the Orient Valley, it was such a pretty ride and one of the first we rode. As you can see, low clouds around, so we avoid the high roads and have to keep our ride fairly short today as Allison is heading back to Oz.


The road service ain't that great in some parts, but hey, who's complaining, it's stopped raining, so we continue on to climb the Col d'Honor, (ACW) 
Wow loved the climb from this side, easy, nice sweeping switchbacks and NOT ONE CAR, awesome ride






We roll down the hill, taking it easy on the greasy corners and there is a lot of riders now coming up the other side from Palma.  We hit Bunyola and its full of cyclists.  Great to see again. Lots of strong guys with no socks on, so we know they are here training for the Mallorca Olympic 2024 Triathlon coming up in May.

We get hopelessly lost in Loseta on the way home, it's an old town full of one way streets, steep and one car width wide and we end up going around in circles, twice.  We tried to do the right thing, but get a few horns, followed by a police car, local gents said 'camino equivocado' and a lady winding down her window, waving her finger at me "no capeesh" er sorry. 

We bumped into a Danish couple we met on the train a few days ago when travelling to Manacor and rode with them for a while, they were lovely. Who now have, invited Dave and I to Denmark next year for cycling.  They are mad keen like us, so who know's, maybe we will meet again.

Allison Chambers from Wagga Wagga joined us here in Mallorca for 15 days of riding, she is a strong rider, tad younger than us, but it was great to finally meet her after following her on strava since the first L'Etape event in the Snowy's 7 years ago.  We wish her a safe journey home. 































we head down into Bunyola and it's full of cyclists.  They're everywhere, coming up from the Palma road, nice to say, no young guns...............  All shapes, sizes and ages :)







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