http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Spain , Balearic Islands , Majorca en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:43:11 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:43:11 +0000 Shopping in the rainWell off to a good start. went to find a supermarket for the essentials bread beer milk beer ham beer and so on. We entered the shop when it waas very nice and dry outside... upon leaving the shop we got totally soaked. All in all a good first outing.More to comeLove Tom and Harriet http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-438832.html Our First DayDear all. We are finally here in our hotel room and in serious need of rest. It has been a very long day of travelling plagued by small children crying for literally hours on the plane and the bus.The hotel is great really big and grand and we are on the fifth floor which would be great if the lifts worked... but you cant have it all i suppose.As you will see in the pictures I hav http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-438819.html Motorhome News from Europe 14.Spain January 2005Valencia Snow on the beaches in Palmanova MallorcaThis week has been much warmer with constant sunshine and daytime temps of up to 24degrees. Night times became warmer north of Alicante contrary to everyonersquos predictions that we were heading in the wrong direction and it would be cold further north. The coast south of Valencia yielded loa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-432431.html After I finally was on the train I managed to calm down a bit. In the back of my mind I kept thinking about the fact that I had left everything I own here in suitcases in a strange place. However I did get over that once I made it to Luton Airport. We had little problems getting to Mallorca. Our first evening in Palma consisted of sangria and tapas at a local plaza.Mallorca has been around fo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-423154.html einfach ein paar neue Bilder aus meinem jetzigen Leben...neue Wohnung neue Leute neue Hotels.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-415161.html Mallorca.We flew into Mallorca which is one of the spainish islands after going to Defqon1 festival on the weekend. We were excited for the sun and the beach and doing nothing else. It was our first stop in Spain and we were looking forward to things being a bit cheaper. For the most part we weren't disappointed. Beer was 2 euro for a six pack for really nice cervesas food was also dirt cheap in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-413849.html Mallorca liegt bereits zur Hlfte hinter mir. Alles lief gerade mal in normalen Bahnen. Ich bin wieder gesund und habe aus den 4 Hotels endlich wieder 2 machen knnen. Ich war nur unterwegs anstatt Kurse geben zu knnen. Da wir nun zwei neue Schwimmlehrer hier in Malle haben kann ich mich nun endlich auf die letzten 2 Hotels konzentrieren was auch Zeit wird da ja in Deutschland die Sommerferien http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-412907.html Buenos tardesWas gibt es Neues von Trauminselhellip Die Sonne scheint und scheint. Es ist meist um die 27 Grad im Schatten. Das strengt schon ziemlich an. Ich trinke in jeder freien Minute und schmier mir Sonnenmilch Lichtschutzfaktor 50 auf meine zarte ha ha Haut. Leider hilft weder das noch meine Komplettvermummung. Ich habe nun eine Sonnenallergie Hitzefrieseln berall die jucken wie b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-409511.html Our Annual Holiday to Majorca where we stayed at The Hotel Sol Balmoral at Calas de mallorca on the islands east coast.Can't wait for the sunrise http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-407892.html Kaere venner hjemme i det koelige DanmarkVi er kommet til Mallorca efter at have haft tilbagelagt det meste af det oestlige Middelhav med Pia og Anders. Vi har haft to rigtig lange todoegnsture den foerste med modvind og soesyge mindre sjov tur og den anden med herlig medvind meget faa andre skibe og en snert af uvejr. Menorca er en rigtig hyggelig oe med Balearernes bedste smaa laguner. O http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-405779.html Liebe Gre aus Mallorca1.Tag Hier die ersten Eindrcke meiner neuen Arbeitswelthellip Ich kam mit leichter Versptung im Iberostar Vell Mari nahe Ca039n Picafort an. Das Wetter ist gut das Essen auchhellip. 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 d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-405562.html LondonI've not seen a dry day in London as yet. My justification for being here was to meet with Dr. Judith Suissa a professor of education who has done work on Anarchist education. She was kind enough to spend more than four hours obliging my questions giving me a tour of the radical East End of London and then treating me to some Bangledeshi food which passed favourably. What's more she ur http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-403587.html Any one like to travel can visit www.videotravel.comHere you can show high quality videos from all around the world http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-401667.html So the last two weeks have been a little crazy well crazier than Irsquove had the last few months because of all the academic work that Irsquove 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. Fi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-398970.html Um Ferien an einem Traumstrand zu verbringen braucht es leider oftmals viel Geld dabei gibt es auch bei uns in Europa schne Strnde beispielsweise Es Trenc gelegen im Sden von Mallorca. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-396704.html Vacaciones en Mallorca durante una semana http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-396285.html 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 y http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-393798.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-393792.html 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 foun http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-393567.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Balearic-Islands/Majorca/blog-393040.html