What a great week it’s been. I loved my time in Majorca and I’ll certainly try to get back in the summer. It was a week of simple pleasures with each day consisting of breakfast, cycling, lunch, more cycling, dinner then internet or a DVD. Life just doesn’t get any better than that! I wish we had Mediterranean weather back home; instead we have snow which is useless without a ski lift. Sure, I could walk up the hill and ski down but I’d find it hard to justify that to myself. A ten minute hike for one minute of skiing? It just wouldn’t be worth it.

Everything ran fairly smoothly with reasonable weather and I didn’t have a single hiccup with my hired bike. We covered 440km over five days of riding with a 150km ride on the final day. That was a mammoth ride for me; I’d never ridden more than 100km before so I felt rather fatigued over the last hour! I often had two lunches per day but at times it was tough to find a restaurant that was open. Many of the places we rode through appeared to be ghost towns, Majorca aint exactly a packed house in the winter. Thankfully I didn’t have to resort to hunting in the woods which is probably a good thing. The last time I used a rifle was at a pre-GP event in Misano and I missed the target by 20 feet which fell just short of nailing the bystanders on the bridge above.

On Friday I will attend the Belfast Bike Show at the King’s Hall along with Johnny Rea. I remember the last time we were at the show together, it was held in the Odyssey so in between our stints on stage we headed upstairs to the cinema along with motocross rider Martin Barr for an afternoon movie! Good times. I will head off to Australia with Pippa on Sunday to spend a week on the Gold Coast before Phillip Island. This will be my longest flight yet as I’ve never flown directly to or from Australia. In Grand Prix Japan was before Australia and Malaysia after so the journey was split but this time it’s the full hog! It’s gotta be done though.

Until next time, see ya.

Eugene