Same time as yesterday for reveille; we wanted to get on the road to the Cap Formentor lighthouse. It was a Saturday, of course, so it would be no surprise for there to be many extra grockles on the route, if we had left it too late.
Off we set up the short climb to the first overlook, the one we had done as an hors d'oeuvre last evening. It is only a 15-minute jaunt, and we were up there by 0930. The parking area had just half a dozen cars in situ, and the attendant was coping admirably. The remainder of the 12-mile ride out to the lighthouse was enjoyable and smooth. Especially the smooth part; the road has been resurfaced since I last did it, in May 2014. It is now glorious, like a baby's bum.
At the lighthouse it got busier and busier as we watched, and all in ten minutes. Time to leave. And by the time we got back to that first overlook, it was absolutely heaving. No space to shoehorn even one more car in. The attendant had long gone. Given up in disgust, I'd say; there were some quite ridiculous driving manoeuvres on display.
Back down to the café opposite the hotel, with barely 24 miles yet on the clock, for a cooling Coke/Mountain Dew, with a coffee/pastry chaser. What to do now, though? An afternoon route was plotted out to Sa Pobla & Muro (prime ensaimada country), then east to the coast at Can Picafort, followed by a turn north back to Alcudia and base. The road out to Sa Pobla was disappointingly busy, but we should have seen that coming, given how it links to the main Palma motorway. Curiously, at our second pastry stop, at a Muro patisserie I knew from previous visits, we could overhear a chap talking about the very part of Yorkshire we two had been staying in just over a fortnight ago!
The loop back to base was quite uneventful, but hot; a pound or two will have been lost today, for sure. Tried hard to get the hydration thing right though! The BBC weather promised a thunderstorm for 2000 tonight, so we decided against the regular trek to town, as that would surely have seen us drowned. The hotel a few doors down provided us with splendid fare, and the promised storm came, only 15 minutes off schedule, while we were inside. Result.
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