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Palma Slideshow
Palma
Travel Blogs from Palma, Spain and Canary Islands
Majorca
... being back in Spanish territory. We had some delightful Spanish pastries with coffee before heading back to the direction to port at Palma. Talk about a joke dropping the hire car off, being 3pm everyone was on siesta, so the car rental place was ...
Oct 18, 2010
Back to the peninsula
... the ensaimadas (labeled as "fragile" LoL) and in an instant we were back in Barcelona, with our suntan, our sobrasadas, ensaimadas, herbs liquor, Pal (a typical majorcan liquor made of carob), homemade jams and feeling like going back to the islands ...
Psico-Palma
... on more or less a whim we made the 30 minute flight out to Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca being the largest of Spain's Balearic islands. Soon after arriving our Host, Roy from Galicia, took us out to Porto Pi, where the sport of Deep Water ...
Intro
I am writing these entries now five months after the fact. I arrived in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on January 27, 2007. The night of my arrval I stayed in a hotel and was greeted by the celebrations of San Sebastian, one of the saints´days, celebrated ...
The Balearic Islands are a draw
... hide from, by cloistering themselves inside the imprenatable walls of the towers. The Island of Palma had been Monica Soldainis second home for many years and her family was a familiar sight on the island forever, so her knowledge of ...
Warm again!
Wow, does it feel good to warm up or what! The flight yesterday from Zurich to Palma de Mallorca was uneventful. However, I knew that eventually my flying "pleasure" would take a down turn before long - it had just been too long since flying with no ...
Capital of La Palma
Beautiful maritime city with coloured houses, a lot of cafes and restaurants. Cheap shopping (generally on the canary islands as they do not pay VAT). Every third sunday monthly takes place the gran mercado where one can buy handycrafts and ...
Knebep.
... , our own beds and bathroom, a tennis court, and best of all a pool, were extremely appreciated. On our first day in Palma, we walked down the water front into town. We explored the old city, including the jaw-dropping Cathedral of Mallorca. ...
Can you say .... RELAXATION!!
... Interesting. Anywhich, dad had already gone in the pool, because it was hot at 10:00 in the morning!!!! Whoooooooooo!!! Hannah and I went straight to the pool, because it was not a freezing cold pool and once again, it was hot outside!!!!!!!!!!! So ...
Still trying to get to Ibiza
... of the info desks suggested going to the port, but warned that ferries might not be running. I was on a mission, so scott and i were practically running from port building to building. We finally found the company that was open and after an hour wait ...
Palma de Mallorca
This is some island in the Meditteranean and our last port before we are off the ship. Sue and I are a little burned out on churches, castles and museums, so we just hiked around a bit in this beautiful ...
Goodbye winter, hello Spring
... - I took a total of 4 free glossy paper magazines, perfect to read on the balcony. Yeah. Flight attendants were super nice and I really loved their uniforms too. So that was a nice start.I got picked up at the airport by Petra, dropped the luggage at the ...
Mallorca at last!
... ! Absolutely loved it, like always. =) Still keep wanting to go back. Only got to stay a week, but spent time with my host family and my former study abroad director while also having fun exploring the island and celebrating the Spanish 3 Kings day. ...
Mallorca, Baby!
... rave about paella - it's pretty gross! * Palma is incredible! I could live there in a heartbeat. * I can't believe how big Palma is and can't believe that there is actually a subway system! * My Palma fun map was really a fun map - complete with ...
Ankunft in Palma de Mallorca
... Etappe mit 510 sm (945 km) den voraus geschätzten 500 sm kamen. Für Peter, unseren polnischen Skipper, war Palma die Endstation seiner monatelangen Arbeit auf der STEINLAGER 2. Er wird sich jetzt ganz seinem Projekt Rekordweltumsegelung widmen. Seine ...
Wandering around Palma
... built their Palace on top of a Roman fort that was located here.) It is still the official residence of the King of Spain when the royal family is in Mallorca. I then wandered along the old defensive walls of the city, most of which have been ...
Palma Port Visit
Balearic Islanders would stop talking in Spanish when they realized I spoke it, and started speaking in ...
Quaint village of Valldemossa
We sailed to Palma de Mallorca (pronounced My-YOR-ka) today which is the the Balearic Islands which is ruled by Spain. The City of Palma is the capital city. We were impressed the moment we arrived by the yachts, palm trees and an ...
