Palma
Travel Blogs from Palma, Spain and Canary Islands
Southwestern Winds
... built 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 ...
Off to the Mediterranean...
... to help us with the load we said goodbye to my mom. Saying goodbye to the other half of my family here in Spain was just as hard as in Buenos Aires, and we all cried just as much. I assured my mom we were going to take care of each other and after she ...
Hiking Mallorca - Serra de Tramuntana
... across the bay through a forest of masts. From a jetty opposite the Auditorium theatre, excursion boats offer tours of Palma Bay. Keep going, and eventually you reach Club de Mar with its luxury yachts. Just beyond here is the commercial ferry port, where ...
Meetings
... 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 ...
New surroundings
... enable us to expand our confinement outside of the Porto Petro boundaries. That's why today we rented a car early in the morning and decided to go to Palma for the day. We awoke at 8am to pick up our Toyota sedan and by 10am we were on our way to the ...
Leaving Mallorca
So the time has finally come to leave the island. After 4 months and everything we went through, it has been quite the experience. It was a bizarre summer...yeah... bizarre is the word because it neither has a good or bad connotation, it's a neutral word ...
Mallorca May Be My New Favorite Spanish City
Of course the day that I am departing Colonia and heading to Palma, the sun is out. With no time to even take a photo, I grabbed the 9:35AM bus to Palma in the nick of time where I was scheduled to meet up with a new friend Juan who I met on a bus from ...
No Biking, No Sun, But Lots of Playing House
... place to stay. I contacted Miquel a week prior to my arrival. Miquel lives in Colonia Sant Jordi, 50km away from Palma center in a lovely quite beach town predominately frequented by Germans. Miquel provided me with very clear directions on how to arrive ...
Week 17 (Sidería and Palma de Mallorca)
... 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 ...
Gypsies, tramps and thieves.
... the ship for cocktail hour, and sat around the pool listening to Natalie and the HALcats (Holland America Line) singing and playing a mixture of contemporary hits, while we drank our strawberry daiquiris out of brightly coloured, plastic coconuts. Bliss! ...
Palma de Mallorca
... 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 ...
Mallorca - Tourist Haven
... city on the island, Palma for a day of shopping. The weather was supposed to be overcast on our part of the island, and Palma was just beautiful and sunny. We shopped and explored and walked everywhere. The temperature was pleasant and luckily we ...
Lazy Day in La Palma
... ; December 7 Lazy Day in La Palma We arrived in La Palma, Santa Cruz Island of the Grand Canary Islands on time. Belonging to Spain we were speaking Spanish again today. Last year we were in Tenerife and we immediately noticed the ...
buckets of sangria, topless beaches, and sunshine
... we got 3 liters of sangria. I spilt one with liz. we had super long straws. it was fun. we then got a drink and it was buy 1 get 1 free. I got 2 long islands. it was a lot to drink. it was around 11 and we had all been up for over 24hrs so we called it ...
Dancing in Palma
Palma is a beautiful city and has a nice attitude about it. You get the feeling that there is mystery, danger or something just lurking around the next corner, but when you round the corner, what you find is yet another party and another group of ...
La Palma ~ island monster ready for action
La Palma~ Known as the 'Green Island', La Palma receives the most rainfall of all the islands providing for lush vegetation, natural springs and small rivers and waterfalls. It is also home to the world's largest crater (over 5 miles wide), which offers ...
Palma de Mallorca
... . We could have taken a tram ride here around the port but we decided we would head back to Palma and have a quick look at the Gothic Quarter and Spain’s second largest Gothic-style cathedral, La Seo. Greg and Lee dropped all of us off at the ...
Back to Palma--back, back, back to Palma
... at the public pool here in Santa María, where Miguel lives, and then tonight I'm supposed to meet my friends Vane and Juan for dinner in Palma. Tomorrow I have lunch with Juan Miguel, who was my professor and the director of the Vanderbilt program here, ...
Lug und Trug bei Air Berlin 1. Teil
Sevilla-Stuttgart Flugdauer 21 Stunden! Dank sei Air Berlin! Eigentlich haette es jetzt ans Boarden gehen sollen in Palma de Mallorca, aber zuerst heisst es, wir muessen noch eine halbe Stunde warten, dann heisst es noch eine Stunde... Boarding findet ...
A lazy day at sea
... ;at sea’ day for this half of the trip. We went for breakfast in the Vista to have a leisurely meal. By coincidence Philip and Anna arrived a little before us and when we went to our shared table they were there with a couple from Ohio. We were ...
Mallorca - An Isle of Contrasts (to put it nicely)
... point in time. There was no sign of anything truly Mallorcan in these stores, but I could purchase Native American artifacts and African baskets everywhere (what?). No wonder they all hate us tourists. Hoping to find something that would give us a ...
The Stories People Tell...
... bigger than their fishing boats, the captain thought it best that we didn't force our way through, but instead sailed to Palma de Mallorca and postponed Barcelona for a day. At breakfast we were joined by Aaron and Cortney, and (un)fortunately also ...
Island excursion with new friends
... much of the technical stuff). That night (last night) we hopped on a ferry to Mallorca (an island in the Mediterranean south of Spain). We had met some of Andrea´s friends in the hostel who had went and had a great time with the best part being the ...
Black Volcanic Beaches and Fishing Villages
... to leave the cold winds and wet weather in London saw me flying off to one of the smaller islands in the Canary Islands, Isla de La Palma. With an optimistic weather forecast of 24 degrees I was feeling very excited about my trip and I could not wait to ...

