The weather has fortunately improved today with temperatures of 20+ Especially pleasing for the participants in the 316 Cycling Sportive.. This is a very tough event with 3 distances of up to 312 Km and 5,000 metres of climbing.
Coinciding with this event is the real start of the tourist season that regrettably brings with it pickpockets. My wife Phyllis was an unfortunate victim on our way back by bus last Sunday from the market in Pollensa. On alighting at our Gotmar stop in Puerto Pollensa not 250 metres from out house she was robbed . It is a very short distance from the stop to the front of the Aires bar. I had descended from the bus first, Phyllis swiping the machine with her bank card on descending to pay the fare for both of us, Only 2 or 3 people getting off the bus at the same time, On the 200 metres remaining to our house there was no one near us. It was only latter when she looked for her Phone, that we realised we had been victims.
Visiting the GNR police again in a familiar building ,brought back memories of about 30 years ago when my first wife Janet's handbag was snatched by a couple on a scooter outside the Pollensa Park Hotel. This couple were latter apprehended, hopefully the police will be successful this time. Phyllis is still traumatised, she thought after living 20 years in New York she was careful. This goes to show you cannot be too careful PLEASE TAKE EXTRA CARE IN THE MARKETS AND ON THE BUS.
There is much more about Mallorca and my experience in Sportives on my Authors Website cycling70yearsonceworldchampion.com
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