Relatively uneventful journey and we are here

After a ground delay in Philadelphia for a thunderstorm, we took our nite flight over the Atlantic to Barcelona, landing only about 20 minutes late to our original schedule. Then,the fun began....
We had a very limited amount of time to enter Spain, collect our checked luggage and check in for our flight to Mallorca. It was time compressed, but we made the flight and also got our luggage when we arrived in Palma, Mallorca. A short bus trip across the island to Alcudia got us to our hotel and we are here for the night. Tired, but at least in the place where we will be for the next 9 days.

The hotel is very nice and we have a "half pension", which means we get full breakfast and dinner each day included at a very reasonable surcharge. Here are pics of the hotel and the beach right at the end of the block.

Tomorrow is bike fitting day, we get our rentals at 8:00 am and then a quick breakfast and out for our first ride to Petra. This is a popular first day ride of only about 40 miles and relatively flat.