The Balearic Islands are a draw

Trip Start Jan 01, 1972
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Trip End Jul 08, 2007


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Thursday, January 6, 1972

As my parent's friendships, through their travels and business associates, broadened so did our homes away from home and it was the next trips to the island of Mallorca, and our stays with the Soldainis that bested the Barcelona trip. The island became my next favorite, although just like a parent with multiple children, you love them all the same, just in different ways.
Driving to the beach each morning, we would pass the ever-popular and dare I say famous la Torre Restaurant, where the pigs were already slow roasting over an open fire, anticipating being on that night's menu. And that was all there would be on the menu, a loaf of bread, some salad, soup (ladled out of an enormous eartheware bowl)  and pieces of pork, washed down (at least for the adults) with a couple of glasses of local table wine. Simple and melt in your mouth fantastic. The history of the torres in Spain go back to the time of the Moors, from whom farmers and their livestock would often 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 the best restaurants was a given, and we were introduced to some of the best home-made paella at one of the hidden beach restaurants. I always looked forward to a summer trip to the island and even in later years visited not only Mallorca but also Menorca and of course that party island of the 70's: Ibiza, and where details of those  escapades will be recounted in a future blog- so keep watch for an eye full.  
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