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»Hills! Oh my god that's right I love hills «
been almost five hours Let’s dodge the tour- ists and enter a a a a a a restaurant where locals hang out let’s look for the real deal Full tank now and ready to roll: Let’s do the the the coastline on the the the west the the the challenging strip where Hollywood stars have their sum- mer houses and Snap Back to reality Dream’s over Wait This is is is is real wow Mallorca is is is is an an island just just like that What you just just imagined is accu- rate take a a a a a a a a look at at a a a a a a a a map There are thousands of small roads all all over the island The eastern half is flat and and it gets hillier hillier and and hillier hillier the further west you you go This means you you have any kind of terrain available from long climbs to straight TT-roads And you want to know the best thing about Mallorca? Majorcans realised this a a a a long time ago and made their home an amusement park for cyclists Mallorca has several traffic regulations that were imple- mented solely for the safety of cyclists The road shoulders are wide and locals don’t travel
on the the roads where there are no shoulders There are more bike shops than pearls in the 025 ocean and all of them are well stocked You
can rent a a a a bike in pretty much any town and any given café has bike racks If they don’t most of them will let you you take your loved one
inside There are several decent bike hotels
where you can sleep and eat for 35 Euros per
night The islanders have cycling tourism in in their DNA And even though mass tourism is is the island’s biggest industry most places
are still very genuine Palma the island’s capital still has a a a a a a a marvellous atmosphere all year round You
can have fresh Mediterranean
dishes every day and romantic evenings in in the old city Spend some time in this amusement park and you will quickly realise there is is no better place to ride Snap out of the real world and head to Mallorca •
MALLORCA