Jo's Travels

Arrived within 35 minutes by Spanair from Barcelona. Picked up our Avis hire car, a little VW Polo diesel, very nice, I like the button at the back for the boot. Kev quickly realised it was a manual, oops, opposite side of the road, opposite side of the car, and changing gears..nope, we had to upgrade to an automatic which ended up costing us a motsa. The signage on Majorca is fantastic, plenty of signs at every turn so we picked a town to stay in for our first night through seeing a pretty photograph in my guidebook and drove straight to Colonia de Sant Jordi and scored a hotel on the ocean inclusive of breakfast.

This place is little Germany, we have been told there are actually more Germans in Majorca than Spanish. We can see why, there was no English translation on any tour/excursion sign or menu, the Spanish staff only spoke German, every single conversation we heard was German, without a word of a lie. Very bizarre.

Majorca has approximately 80 coves/inlets, that are calm, turquioise, clear water, with pure white sand. Some are a fair way in from the coast and often there are yachts moored. It is such a heavenly place. We took our map and explored several of these coves on our first day, I think Kev was pleasantly suprised at the freedom the Germans seem to have with their bare bodies today!! We got some supplies at the Supermercado and were entertained from our balcony by the Spanish singing duo by the pool who sang continuous old English songs, such as 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the old oak tree'..get the idea?? But it all sounded very bad, to try and explain, if you heard a song in another language and tried to copy it, that's how it sounded. Anyway, we laughed at their expense for some time.

Day 2: Checked out of the 'Guten Morgen' hotel and drove north. Majorca changed into a busy, Surfers Paradise in the north, we really didn't like it, and was very different from the south. So we found accommodation and the next morning set off south again.

Day 3: Visited some more coves on the way down and had a bit of rain, but at the last cove was getting sick of driving and just wanted to find a place to stay. I was keen on going back to Colonia but Kev said, let's have a look over this hill...great decision!! Paradise unfolded, and before us lay a magnificent place for lunch, which happened to have accommodation!! We were upgraded to the suite and for heaps cheaper than we've paid for crappy accommodation we got the best room in the house, with 180 degree views of 2 coves and the ocean with breakfast and dinner included! We've always been of the opinion that the accomm. doesn't matter, its only a place to wash and sleep..until today, it did matter.

Day 4: Spent our last day laying in the sun. This was actually our first full day of doing nothing in 5 weeks, so we really enjoyed it. Tomorrow we set off on a never ending journey home to Australia.

Typical cove, Southern Majorca

The best Paella!

Houses

View from our hotel - last 2 nights

Last photo of our trip - Majorca