Gran Bahia Ca'n Picafort

Die letzte Woche vor unserer Reise ist angebrochen. Wir geniessen noch immer herlichstes Wetter in einem November der so warm ist wie seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr. Winterpullis? Jacken? Nicht die Spur! Kofferpacken - jaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Nos queda una semana hasta que nos vamos. Aqui disfrutamos el Noviembre mas calido hace 30 años! Ni bufanda, ni chaqueta - de maravilla! Bueno, vamos a por las maletas! Siiiiiiiiii

We arrived in Cala de Calobra around 5:30. We anchored in the small bay and took a tender to shore. The little village has a small pier along one side of a steep hill and the village is crowded on the hillside raising between two much larger and steeper hills. The whole thing looks like some Hollywood set because of its idyllic setting on the small bay. There are several bars and restaurants where we got drinks and ate an early dinner.

... lunch was served buffet style on the main deck so everyone could eat at their leasure and were it was the most convenient for them.

Waterskiing is very exhausting and after a few hours of playing on the water, the crew loaded everything up and we headed down to coast to the small village of sa Calobra on the Cala de Calobra.

Just south of the town of Portocristo are the Cuevas del Drach, which are really four caves all connected to each other. This cave however has a large lake in it, called Martel Lake. It's large enough to ride a boat in and to see all the stalactites hanging from the ceiling. It’s a beautiful place ...

10 days of enjoying the good life up in the north of Mallorca.

After a turbulent trip I finally arrived on the very first day of my summerholidays and got picked up by my sister and her friend for some shopping in Palma! (Luckily we did not get affected by the ETA attacks, we heared about that much later that day!)
The rest of the day though I spend sleeping at the beach- not ...

... the girls some instructions on the beach (like how not to fall off the boat) and there we went... I took them out one by one and we had a really good time. Although the girls didn´t know how to sail, they managed really well, especially going out in the trapez. So we did some speeding up and down the bay! So exhausted in the evening!!

In the evenings we always cooked outside on the terrasse, barbecuing fresh fish ...

Today I'm going back north. First stop will be the hamlet of Orient, a bare handful of homes clustered at one end of a small valley in the middle of the Serra de Tramuntana. Even little Orient (population, not counting tourists, is about 30) is cashing in on the tourist trade with three hotels and a few restaurants. Needless to say the tourists bring in more money than the orchards that surround the town. As poor and small as Orient is, it still has a little parish ...

... energetic celebration with mock battles in the streets reenacting the victory of the townsfolk over the Turkish pirates in 1550 AD. Today, Port de Pollença is the tourist meca as opposed to the town of Pollença itself.

After lunch in Port de Pollença I continued on to the extreme northeastern corner of the island which is marked by a lighthouse. The Cap de Formentor was purchased in its entirety by the rather wealthy ...

Maths in the square at night, being awesome at the quiz, teaching it to swim, vodka and top trumps each night, the boy crying about play club, the boy loving play club, the convertible red beast (megane), fred dancing with me, all the AWFUL people that go to those places (us not included)

... How could one possibly make a statement about where we live without actually carrying some document as evidence? The contract was being printed out by the owner of the place so we would have to wait one or two more days. After a stop at the supermarket we walked the entire way home. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't that hot. We were becoming more dehydrated by the second but thankfully the steep roads we were climbing ...