Andoni Iraola is obsessive about a European tour - and this is exactly what Bournemouth's supporters were singing about as they floated out of The Vitality Stadium into the bracing south coast air.
Iraola has inherited the Basque love of cycling, so much so that as he prepared his Bournemouth players in his first pre-season at their Marbella training headquarters, he requested club staff tune the big screen into the Tour de France.
Foreign climes will be in his sights again soon if Bournemouth maintain the blistering form that saw Nottingham Forest, flying high at third place in the Premier League before this game, blown away 5-0 in the sort of blizzard of attacking football that has become Iraola's trademark.