After a warm up ride on the day before, day 2 was the start of the mountain climbs.
Same as the day before, the weather was picture perfect… time to leave the hotel… felt like in the godfather movie, leaving the house in Sicily

Shortly after leaving the hotel, we had a few miles of flat and easy, but it was very short lived, as the mountains of northern Mallorca lurked in the close distance.

The closer I got to the mountains, the more intimidating they looked.

The first climb to be negotiated was …