Palma
Travel Blogs from Palma, Spain and Canary Islands
Feliz Navidad!
Feliz Navidad! I made it to Spain and back for Christmas and what an amazingly gorgeous time it was. I have never experienced white sandy beaches during what is traditianally a very cold time of year. We spend 4 days in Palma on the island of ...
Palma Nova, Majorca.
... exploring and checking out Mum & Dad's favourite haunts. Especially Tom Brown's restaurant in Magaluf (next bay over from Palma Nova and an easy walk). Brandy & coffee at 10:30am could become habit-forming!!! Relaxed on the beach and then dinner ...
You say Majorca, I say Mallorca...
It's the last full day on ship, and we are on the island of Palma de Mallorca. And it is another glorious day! Mallorca (aka Majorca) is an absolutely lovely place. In fact, both Kelly and I figure that if we were going to retire to one of the ...
Day One
... was already full! This involved getting much diesel on my hands, as well as feeling like a prize potato! I stopped in Palma and had some lunch by the sea in a café/restaurant. The staff were very welcoming and spoke good ...
The 17 German state
I was with my best friend in Berlin, Max and his family, in Mallorca and enjoyed a week of warm ...
Palma, Mallorca
... on the spit. And our chef starting to prepare Paella for us. Rabbit, pork, mussels, shrimp, vegies, rice, garlic, saffron and other spices. Voila! Paella was ready. We returned to the home, went upstairs to beautiful room set with wine glasses ...
R, R&R (Rain, Rest & Relaxation)
... listen to the weather forecast again. It's so unbelievably bleak. Rain, rain, rain oh, did I forget to mention more rain. And did I mention that it's officially the coldest winter on Mallorca since 1951? Last night 9 of us went bowling. Needless to ...
Das Nachtleben in Spanien
Neben dem spanischen Festland sind es vor allem die Inseln Mallorca oder Ibiza, auf denen man vor allem das hiesige Nachtleben voll auskosten kann. Menorca, aber auch Fuerteventura sind Inseln, die sich hervorragend für Familien mit Kindern eignen. Aber ...
Picafort to Palma, 38 flat country miles
... loaded, we turn towards Palma. The weight of my paniers wiggle with wine...I giggle, also with wine! I reflect on my accomplishments, my pure satisfaction of completing a tour through Portugal and Spain, on a bike! I can't help but think how lucky I ...
Mallorca, Beautiful Island
... . When we returned to the hotel, we had lunch. From the hotel we have a spectacular view of the larger bay. Tyler and my parents all had ham and cheese sandwiches. Hillary had a club sandwich. Leslie and I both had grilled fish and ...
Playa
Life of the Rich & Famous and Tax Evaders
14 - 17 August 2011 Palma - Mallorca Spain Weather - hot love it! Isla Mallorca & Spa Well not off to a good start leaving Barcelona for Mallorca. Have booked cheap flight with a low cost airline Veulling - one of those airlines where you have ...
Forget Ibiza, Mallorca is a million times better!
... (plus lack of wifi to make plans to leave!) made it easy to stay. Palma is the largest city on Mallorca and the capital of the Balearic Islands. As of 2009, the population of the city of Palma was 401,270, and the population of the entire ...
A few sunny days during a long London winter.
... sunny Spanish Isle of Mallorca. So together with several other guys Dave and Dan knows (11 of us in total) we jetted off to Palma, the capitol of Mallorca in the Balearic Sea. Tres días de sol y cervezas. Lovely. (Probably another entry to review and ...
It's only a 40 minute walk to Palma
... were only available in spanish, so I passed. Walked around a bit in Palma's old town without any plan really and caught a bus to Platja de Palma.In Platja de Palma there was a farewell party planned for a friend moving from Mallorca. So we had lovely ...
Leaving Palma for Croatia
... to get the masts back in and the yacht ready for another summer trip. This also meant some new crew, so Jimmy & Leske joined us, while Geoff & Jo left us for greener pastures. We left Palma, rounded Italy and headed up the Adriatic Sea to ...
Palma de Mallorca
... morning to find ourselves just coming into Palma de Mallorca. Mallorca is the largest of the four Ballearic Islands – part of Spain and Palma is the capital. Very pretty little city and extremely well organized cruise ship dock – with ...
Palma, Mallorca Beach Vaca!!!!!!!
... at the restaurant started talking to us about his job and basically about himself. He was from the Netherlands and was working in Palma, Mallorca just because why not. He knows five different languages and can interchange them fluently. It ...
And so it begins...
... once they leave, haha no I shouldn’t talk like that. But that will be my next blog, "The Owners". Another 2 weeks in Palma and then we are off to our next destination, France or Greece depending on the owner’s decision. But we are definitely ...
My Life on the island
... arrived. I´ve made friends from many different countries including Mexico, Peru, Argentina, France, Italy, Germany, Romania, Austria, and Russia. Yesterday was the official beginning of classes. Two of my classes are with the other American ...
buffet breakfast, cathedral and swimming
... ........genius! made sure i got my money's worth. walked around looking for a laundrette, ended up taking it to Palma with us. we wnet round the cathedral which was rather scenic, took some pictures then visited the gift shop! ...
Palma
Back to the Balearic Islands
... go cliff jumping, and I'm stoked that I finally conquered the 15m plunge, even though it left a red mark on my arm for the next 2 days! I'm sure that Palma de Majorca has plenty more to offer, and I'd love to go back there in the future to check it ...
Mallorca
Have been here several times, there is so much more to Mallorca than the tacky tourist shops the resorts present - get a car, go investigate - its a much different island than you would expect. A selection of photos from the various ...

