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Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca June 5th 2009

Liebe Grüße aus Mallorca! 1.Tag: Hier die ersten Eindrücke meiner neuen Arbeitswelt… Ich kam mit leichter Verspätung im Iberostar Vell Mari nahe Ca'n Picafort an. Das Wetter ist gut, das Essen auch…. Bla bla bla. Morgen ist Schluss mit lustig und die Arbeit beginnt. Zurzeit wohne ich noch alleine in einem kleinen Appartement, aber bekomme wohl bald Gesellschaft. Ansonsten ist das Hotel relativ übersichtlich. Auch der Pool sieht auf dem Foto im Internet viel größer aus… aber wird schon reichen. War auch schon mal in der Stadt bummeln und da kam, das erste mal Urlaubsfeeling auf. Mal sehen wie lange das anhält. Ich habe auch eine neue Telefonnummer. Die alte Nr. ist ab dem 20.12. 2009 wieder gültig. Ansonsten habe ich weder regelmäßig Internet, noch Zeitung oder TV. Also haltet mich mit allen Dingen per email ... read more
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Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca May 14th 2009

So the last two weeks have been a little crazy, well crazier than I’ve had the last few months because of all the academic work that I’ve been doing. During this time, I had to do 3 presentations, take 3 final exams and hand in two 15 page term papers. This normally would have caused me to go insane if I was back at Marquette, but here it was a lot easier for a number of reasons. First off, like I’ve said before, I’m pass-fail here so my grades don’t matter, so I didn’t have to worry about my grade. So, for the first time in my academic career I could study what interested me and write what I wanted and really didn’t care if I was going to be tested on it. I learned so ... read more
Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 25th 2009

Wow, what a day! Last night we discussed riding up the mountain to Orient today. I did not commit because I was more than a little worried about my ability to make it up a real mountain. Plus the desire to worry my mother to death before hand seemed silly. This morning, I decided that I should give it a try, you don't know what you are capable of if you sit at the bottom of the mountain. So I agreed to give it a go. Our plan was to climb up to town of Bunyola village of Orient which is part of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range and then come back the same way so a big descent and then begin the rest of our ride. The rest our ride was to include a ... read more
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Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 25th 2009

Side note about Read's Hotel where we are staying. It is owned by a very nice British family who found an a 500 year old neglected estate in 1989 while at their vacation home in Mallorca. They purchase it and spent seven years restoring it to its current splendor. The owner said thank goodness he didn't know what he was getting into when he started this venture he thought it would take him 2 years at most. He used to be a lawyer in London, he found that the responsibility of owning a hotel is even more than a lawyer, because now he feels responsible for everyone who visits Read's enjoying their holiday to the utmost. They really make you feel at home here, so much so that we have had dinner here every night and ... read more

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 24th 2009

Good News, I fell asleep last night fast and woke with no headache, which means all systems go for another big day of cycling. We started of with a plan which we stuck to for the most part. We headed via bike path to St Eugenia, which is a lovely town, it is the one with the lovely windmill, actually many of the mallorcan towns have windmills that look very dutch. After a little research I found out that they were originally flour mills. Speaking of we saw what looked like fields of wheat near the shore. Some of them are still in use, most are not, and in one town they have converted it to a cafe. After Eugenia we headed to Algaida which is the home to cafe Suc. Friday is market day in ... read more
becky
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Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 22nd 2009

Happy Anniversary to us! We spent the day in a perfect way cycling ourselves silly. Our plan which did not end up working was to cycle from Santa Maria to Manacor to buy Mallorcan Pearls. Let me clarify, Mallorcan Pearls are supposed to look just like the real deal but are painstakingly made in a factory with fish scales. I am intrigued so we decided that jewelery is easy to carry so it was the one thing we could shop for on the bike. On our way we planned on having lunch in Sineu. We were 1.8 miles down the road and realized that while we had some Euros in our pocket we did not have a credit card so Ed headed back to the room to get his wallet and told me to keep going, ... read more
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Market
Market

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 21st 2009

Monday's ride was at least 65 miles, If I leave that out Ed will think the entire post was for nothing so now you know.... read more

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 21st 2009

Well, let me just say that even a little positive encouragement is all I need to keep blogging so remember, at least a few of you asked for it. I have to backtrack to last night at dinner where we again tried to eat the breadbasket. There are two things in life that Ed hates, live music and having the chef visit your table. Now this is not meant to offend anyone who enjoys these things, but for Ed it is the equivalent to locking him in a room with snakes. Of course if the live music is Neil Diamond I think he would make an exception, Ed is a big Neil Diamond fan. So now you are thinking there was live music and the chef visited our table. No, the music was elevator versions of ... read more

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Majorca April 21st 2009

Well, I have to admit that my first attempt at blogging was a little disastrous. I started typing about our time here in Mallorca only to have my computer lose the wifi connection and could not find what I had typed. Enough whining. Our flight from NY to Madrid was uneventful in the sense that we had dinner and then slept. Dinner was good, which surprised both of us because we were expecting it to be pretty bad. Since we did not eat prior to boarding the flight we were pleasantly surprised. I took Advil PM as soon as the flight took off so by the time they served dinner I was literally falling asleep in my crab cakes. I slept soundly until thirty minutes prior to landing. I am getting ready to take my Advil ... read more




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