Palma, Spain Travel Blogs

Southwestern Winds
Oct 20, 2006 (39 photos)

... So with that in mind, we drove to Palma where we were sure we would find a great place for some Spanish tapas. Palma was a contrast compared to the dump we had just been in: her elegant streets and distinguished flair could turn anyone into a sybarite ...

Hiking Mallorca - Serra de Tramuntana
Apr 10, 2007 (14 photos)

... . The short tree-lined avenue, named after the architect of La Llotja, passes several interesting buildings. First, La Llotja itself, Palma's masterpiece of Gothic civic architecture; Porta Vella de Moll, the old gateway to the city from the sea; and ...

Off to the Mediterranean...
Jun 19, 2006 (6 photos)

... painfully saying goodbye to Sophie, who was very saddened by our parting, we boarded the plane for the 50 minute flight to Palma de Mallorca. Planes for some reason make me really really sleepy, and I was unable to keep my eyes open through most of ...

New surroundings
Sep 22, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Leaving Mallorca
Oct 24, 2006 (1 photos)

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 ...

Les Baléares
Jan 7, 2008

On croise au sud des Baléares

Palma de Mallorca
Nov 5, 2006

... 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 taste of home ( ...

Mallorca - Tourist Haven
Sep 24, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 timed ourselves ...

Lazy Day in La Palma
Dec 7, 2007 (22 photos)

... 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 difference. A much smaller ...

CIDADE DE PALMA
Aug 24, 2007 (5 photos)

CIDADE DE PALMA

Dancing in Palma
Sep 10, 2009 (1 photos)

... is yet another party and another group of residents who seem to have truly mastered the secrets of a good life. We arrived in Palma close of midnight on Wednesday. This city is also known for its wild nightlife and tonight was our only opportunity to find ...

La Palma ~ island monster ready for action
Nov 11, 2005 (4 photos)

... an unresistible pitcher of home-made Sangria 3. Unlike the Parador on La Gomera, the staff and accommodations at La Palma offered excellent service 4. Shopping and browsing around Santa Cruz provided some of the best of all the islands 5. Walking the ...

Back to Palma--back, back, back to Palma
Jul 26, 2006 (7 photos)

... 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, and then I have ...

Lug und Trug bei Air Berlin 1. Teil
Oct 7, 2005

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 ...

Azuaga in Easter
Apr 9, 1992 (9 photos)

Easter in Azuaga

Easter in Azuaga
Mar 23, 1984 (2 photos)

Easter in Azuaga

Mallorca - An Isle of Contrasts (to put it nicely)
Sep 18, 2006 (9 photos)

Oh I am so stupid. I should have kept a journal. But no I didn't so I will just be putting in a short entry of why Mallorca is somewhere I will probably not go again, but do not regret seeing at least once... So our adventure begins late in the ...

Malle
Aug 4, 2007

jea! malle

The Stories People Tell...
Oct 26, 2005 (15 photos)

... lot 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 ...

Finding Demian
Jun 26, 2006 (1 photos)

... each other, that we decided we had to escape this world with some sleep and give up on the night. Before we left Palma, we read a newspaper article that assumed the police believed that the man was a known gypsy criminal in the area. He had tried to ...

Island excursion with new friends
Oct 6, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 25& ...

Day Number 1 in Sevilla!
Jan 9, 2007 (4 photos)

Hola! Today was a long and crazy day. Breakfast started out great today with a huge buffet that was excellent. Then we meet with our groups and headed to the Universidad de Sevilla. It is huge but very pretty. The building is actually an old tobacco ...

Typical Sunday
Jan 28, 2007

Hola!   Today I got up and went to church with Pepita. We went to a new church and it was very ornate. This time there weren't a lot of people that came in and left during the mass but there wasn't any singing either. Afterwards, we stopped at a ...

Italica
Jan 11, 2007 (5 photos)

Hola! Today started out with a field trip to Italica. I had to walk to the University of Sevilla by myself and I didn't even get lost once, I was so proud. It was fun walking in the morning with all the people going to work. We took a bus to Italica ...

Last Placement Exam
Feb 3, 2007

Hola!   This morning started out with our 10:30am placement exam at the university. It was pretty rough and I hope that's the last Spanish placement exam I will ever take for the rest of my life! After I got back, I went to meet Heather and Becca ...

Lazy Sunday
Jan 14, 2007 (7 photos)

... came back for dinner and were excited when at the end of our meal, we got ice cream. It was excellent! Everything in Spain is closed on Sundays even their big department store, El Corte Ingles. However, all restaurants are open and apparently a lot of ...

Meeting the New Fam
Jan 10, 2007

... next to Christian Dior, we were fine. We had big success buying shampoo and conditioner and saw how very expensive everything in Spain is compared to our low Walmart prices. Then we had to head over to the CIEE center to take our oral placement exam. ...

Bonding with Abuela
Jan 30, 2007

Hola!   Today I did the usual, get up, go to class, eat massive amounts of lunch, go back and use the internet and then come home and eat massive amounts of dinner. However I did purchase tickets today to Ireland for the first week of April during ...

A Real Mall
Jan 27, 2007

Hola!   This morning Pepita took me to the train station to learn how to buy train tickets. Afterwards we went and did some shopping at the fruit stand, bread stand, etc... When I got back, Becky and I headed over to Plaza de Armas to check it out ...

First Day of School
Jan 16, 2007

Hola! Today was my first day of intensive session. I have one class for 3 hours for the next 3 weeks at the CIEE palace. My teacher is really nice but very pregnant and she looks like she is going to deliver at any moment. I think she said we are ...