Hotel Santa Fe 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.

We left Ciutadella around 8 AM to cross back over to Mallorco and into the Bahai de Pollença. It is a deep cut and large protected bay on the northwest corner of the island. We anchored out in the bay, away from other boats and the crew setup everything for watersports. Since everyone was more spread out and busy with different ...

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 ...

... every morning!
Then we either spend our days at the beach, relaxing, sleeping, reading, swimming, taking underwater pictures... or we went off to discover the island with the convertible- good fun, especially with a lot of good music!

One day we went to Pto. Pollensa to shop in the old city centre and then climb the 365 stairs to the Calvary Mountain with its` chapel on the top.
Another tour took us to ...

... grillwork on second floor balconies. The main square in the center of town, the Plaça Constitució is dominated by the 16th century church of Sant Bartomeu with its enormous façade. That façade is a later Modernista addition to the original Gothic structure. Just across the street from the church the same architect (Joan Rubió) created a Mondernista building for the Banco de Sóller.

From Sóller it was back home to pack for an early morning flight out tomorrow.

... br>From Alcúdia it was a short hop to Port de Pollença. Like the other towns in Mallorca Pollença was the fortified city built inland to discourage pirates and the port was an undefended outpost. Although, apparently, this strategy didn't result in complete success elsewhere in Mallorca, in Pollença, it did, although the Turk, Dragut, almost succeeded in defeating the towns defenses. Every August 2 the citizens of Pollença have a ...

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)

... owner and insisted the menu be changed at once if they wanted to succeed in their "pathetic little restaurant". The usually highfalutin owner finally lowered his head and agreed to a change in the menu. So Federico and Oliver got together and in less than 15 minutes whipped up an amazing menu, with fewer dishes but more flair. Instead of breakfast and lunch they put together an exquisite brunch menu which would be easier to prepare in the small 4-fire kitchen. Cold cucumber ...