Welcome to Cycle Mallorca.
With less than four days before our cycling adventure
begins, I thought it was time to put pen to paper or in this case, fingers to
keyboard. This is the first post of which I hope there will be many,
chronicling the cycling trip of six of us to the Spanish island of Mallorca.
Before the fun stuff starts, a little spelling and geography
lesson might be necessary. I know, me giving anyone a spelling lesson is
comical. Even my cat, Coco spells better than me. The spelling of Mallorca
depends on whom you ask and from what country they hail. While most English
speakers spell it Mallorca, it can also be spelled Majorca, which I guess is a
more proper Spanish spelling.
The island itself is the largest of the Balearic chain of
islands located off the eastern coast of Spain in the Mediterranean. These
islands are both Catalonian and Spanish and have been an autonomous region from
Spain since 1983.
As cyclists, I know your next question. What is the highest
mountain and are we going to climb it? It’s Puig Major and is 1,445 m (4,741
ft) tall and NO, it’s in a military zone so off limits. The next tallest is
Puig de Massanella which is 1,364 m high. And the answer to that one is….maybe.
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