Cathedral (Le Seu) Palma

Moh set the alarm for 7am and got ready before waking ka at 7.30. Docked in Mallorca and had to be at the dock at 9.30am for our highlights tour. Went to the belle cue castle which was the summer palace of the last Majorcan king James and was built in the 1300 s . It was turned into a prison after Franco. Great views but too steep for Moh. Looked …

Majorca Sept 6 – 9, 2012

THURSDAY SEPT 6, 2012

We are off on another weekend of European Quickies to different places in and around Europe where we haven't been in a long time, or one of us has been but not the other or neither of us has been. This weekend is Majorca where neither of us has been. We actually found a Groupon …

Mallorca hat zwar einen teilweise nicht so guten Ruf, uns hat es aber dennoch gut gefallen. Wir müssen aber hierzu erwähnen, dass wir nicht den "Ballerman" besucht haben. Dieses äußerst zweifelhafte Vergnügen haben wir bewusst ausgelassen, da wir die Insel kennen lernen wollten. Gewohnt haben wir im Süd-Osten der Insel.
Die Busverbindungen …

Before venturing into town, Tom and I stopped at the hotel's buffet for breakfast. We had eggs, ham, beans, croissants, and donuts. We then jumped on the public bus to take us into town; it was surprisingly easy, clean, and cheap. It was such a nice way to see the other areas of the island.

The bus dropped us off in front of the cathedral …

We arrived in Palma about 8am and after breakfast caught a taxi into the main old town area. There is a maze of narrow streets much like the old areas of most European cities. We started at the old Cathedral and Castle which was very impressive with towering porticos and attractive courtyards. We wandered through the maze of streets finding a very …

When we booked our trip to Mallorca, we were a little concerned that it might be filled with British tourists sitting at the beach and that apart from the sun it might be a little like staying in London. This was definitely not the case!!

We arrived at Palma de Mallorca Airport and went to pick up our hire car. We had booked it a few …

Gegen 08:37 Uhr sind wir durch dichte, tief hängende Wolken in Palma gelandet. Doch was sehen wir, als wir um 09:11Uhr den Flughafen verlassen??? Blauen Himmel und die Sonne!!! So sollte es dann auch den ganzen Tag bleiben. Mit dem Bus ging es nach Palma, wo wir unser Zimmer in einem schnuckelig kleinen Hostel bezogen haben. Das ganze erinnert …

... around a set of old stone fortress walls. The views up there were staggering and we could see most of old Palma, the harbor, and the cathedral. It soon became time to leave and we headed further southwest toward the little hotel towns up in the ...

... very friendly. We spent a couple of days just walking around Palma.  One day we walked along the waterfront from the cathedral in the old town to the city's edge in the west. Starting in Passeig Sagrera, at the foot of Avinguda ...

... to be, I wanted to see a peregrino who we had spent time with, so I looked at flights to France, Portugal, Holland, Germany and Spain, and then it hit me. Mallorca, home of the Argie and Mallorcan who we had walked with during the il Primitivo trip. I ...

... the sea where hundreds of luxury yachts, big and small, are docked, as if showing themselves off in a catwalk. The exuberant Palma Cathedral starts appearing before you to the right as you drive through Avinguda D' Antoni Maura with its parks and lakes ...

... up Dic del Oeste to a military base where I was able to climb up on a fence and get a small window of a view of the sea and cathedral in the distance. Not quite worth the trek but humorous none the less. It was so nice to be to be back in a metropolitan ...

... " anything in my life, usually it is just "undiscovered" in my room! I'm just going to blame all the smoke in Europe (aka Spain) and conclude that it 1) makes me do stupid things, 2) makes me forgetful, and/or 3) is giving me old age/Alzheimer's...take ...

... and then a troupe of fit, lithe young men doing gymnastics. It was quite idyllic really. We did a tour of the 14th Century cathedral, which had been renovated inside by Gaudi. We could see his influence, some of his work and an unusual altar that had ...

... them so fluidly communicate to a bunch of local kids in spanish! The big buzz on the island was the opening of the one and only dunkin donuts in spain in palma. The next day all the HC-ers went to see the newly opened DD. It was a taste of home - a mini ...

... siesta, and then reopen into the evening. It takes a little getting used to, but one adjusts as needed. We were able to see the castle and cathedral at the top of the hill, as well as find a place to have a cappuccino and rest. It was nice to be ...

... yachts there! We left next day for Palma having a lovely relaxed sail around the corner into the Bay of Palma and then to the RCN marina by the Cathedral and old city. Mark arrived bang on time on the 20th leaving behind some ghastly weather in the ...