Dad - Update 08 June 2007

It's Friday night. Tomorrow Ev and I head off to Barcelona. Eileen will run us to Gandia. we get a train there to Valencia and then (wait for it) a first class train to Barcelona where we are booked into a 4 star hotel! Needless to say Ev booked all of this in my absence. If it had been left to me we'd have been in the usual 2 star tourist hotel and we certainly would not have been 1 st class on the train. However, my socialist concience is clear (I never booked it) so I can enjoy it with impunity.
Anway, the lean, athletic cyclist who arrived here last Saturday is already back to the old geezer with the paunch. I can't understand it. It can't be anything to do with the beer, wine, lunches, dinners, etc, because I've been out for 2 early morning runs on the bike. Surely that should have compensated for trying to keep up with the Boyles at the eating and drinking! What's that? Do I hear Brendan saying "You'd need to run a marathon every day to counteract the effects of the Boyle capacity for strong drink!". I've decided that I don't care. Once back home I'll go on a diet and reduce the alcohol consumption.
After Barcelona we head to Montpelier then take a week by hired car to get to Lille. A train from Lille to Brugge for a coupleof nights then back on the Rosyth ferry to normality. I will text Martin each day with a brief progress report and I am sure that he will maintain the Blog updates. Believe it or not I still have not read it all. See holidays, you never get a minute!
Needless to say, this week in my adopted town of Denia, has been fantastic. I do not think there can be anywhere better in the world than my sister, Eileen's, veranda for drinking a bottle (or 2) of wine. In fact, now that I think of it, why am I wasting valuable time writing this?
hasta luego, salud, cheers, bottoms up, chin chin, etc.
Dad, Granda, Mike, Michael, etc. xx