Blogs from Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe - page 30

We spent 2 days in Palma Majorca and we were still recovering from Contiki. Today we went walking along the port as it didnt look that far to the beach. After about 1 hour of walking we decide to ditch the idea of walking and jumped in a cab and said take us to the closest beach. We had walked about 5km and drove another 5 minutes to Cala Mayor Beach. We both fell asleep and woke up when we noticed everyone packing up & leaving as it looked like it was about to rain. Tonight we found a packed restaurant down a little street that didnt look like much. But once we got inside it was a great atmosphere, mostly full of locals. When you order spirits here, they have free pour, so even though ... read more

Thursday September 7th, 2006 Day 21 Mallorca, Spain I was up early this morning as it was too hot to sleep and I'd told Parky to wake me up when he was heading to the bakery (this had now become a morning ritual). I thought it would be a good chance to get to know him a bit better without the other guys around. We walked to the bakery and back, had breakfast and headed into Santa Ponça to have a look around. The shops here were all the same, selling countless souvenirs and more inflatable pool things that you could imagine. We checked out the beach, this was very classy. After laying on the beach for a while and trying out the water we dried off and headed across the road to McDonalds for lunch. ... read more

Tuesday September 12th, 2006 Day 26 Mallorca, Spain Not too early this morning, no bakery run either. As it was our last full day in Mallorca we decided to get a cab out to the Western Water Park in Magaluf. It cost €19 (Aus$30) to get in, which was good compared to say, Wet'n'Wild back home. We went on almost all of the rides and slides and even sat down to watch the Sea Lion Show, that was very cute. I flatly refused to go on one of the slides though, it is like one of the ones at Wet'n'Wild that is so steep that it's almost vertical and you scrape your back all the way down. Adam went on it and his back was red raw. It was funny to watch others go on it ... read more

Sunday September 10th, 2006 Day 24 Mallorca, Spain Once again we took it pretty easy today. No one even bothered doing the trip to the bakery. Six days in sunny Mallorca and this is what happens to you, you become accustomed to not having to do anything and you get fat because you become lazy and spend your time eating, drinking, sleeping and sunbaking. Not good but so good at the same time. So this was the big few days in Mallorca, the Annual Grand Fiesta. This was because Santa Ponça became the host to the Rei en Jaume Fiesta to commemorate the landing of King Jaime the First back on September 10, 1226 in his quest to conquer the island and take it from the Moors after more than 300years of Muslim rule. Mallorca became ... read more

Friday September 8th, 2006 Day 22 Mallorca, Spain I did the bakery run this morning, again with Parky. The other boys were very grateful, I was happy to walk the hangover off. After breakfast I showered, we got ready and headed into Santa Ponça Marina again to head out on the boat. This time, two of the boys stayed back at the villa to get out the 'Air Cruiser 2000' and have it ready for by the time we got the boat around there. It was this thing that two people could sit it and it was pulled behind the boat. We spent a few hours taking turns on this thing, though because Adam was the only one with a boat licence so he was the only one to control how fast each of was pulled ... read more