01 Wednesday Feb 2023
Posted in Mallorca
The sun came back this week and we are enjoying fine spring weather. The snow on the mountains has almost melted. This Saturday we plan to fly back to Germany and are packing and distributing all our stuff here as we have no current plans to return to the flat in Port Pollenca. The many winters we spent here were very nice.
28 Saturday Jan 2023
Posted in Mallorca
The last few days have been very windy, cold and wet. Now there is quite a bit of snow on the mountains. Next week the sunshine is supposed to come back.
17 Tuesday Jan 2023
Posted in Mallorca
The North and East of Mallorca celebrate Sant Antoni every year on 16 and 17 January. This is a very local party, with bonfires lit in many places in town on the evening of the 16th. The neighbourhoods meet around barbecues that the city or local businesses erect close to the fires. The party then goes on all night with loud music and fireworks. On the 17th animals are blessed in the front of the church and later in the day, the youths show their mettle by climbing up a 25m high pine tree that is coated in soap. This year the weather was very windy, but that did not inhibit anybody..
10 Tuesday Jan 2023
Posted in Mallorca
We are still in Mallorca, enjoying time with family and friends. This week my sister and her husband joined us. The weather continues to be sunny and warm.
30 Friday Dec 2022
We had a great time with the family over Christmas, and flew back to Mallorca yesterday. In the evening we met friends from our time in Canterbury for dinner, and it was great catching up after the hiatus caused by Covid. The weather is sunny and warm.
12 Monday Dec 2022
We came to the small village of Orient in the middle of the mountains (Tramuntana) to celebrate Sheila’s birthday yesterday. The hotel we are staying in, Dalt Muntanya, is run by an Austrian couple, who welcomed us warmly and provided an excellent birthday dinner. The weather is mixed, but the sun came out this morning.
09 Friday Dec 2022
We went for lunch with friends in Inca today, and then drove into Palma for some shopping. We also took the time to walk through town and enjoy the Christmas lights. Town was very busy and the traffic crazy, so it is nice being back at our quiet flat now, listening to the ocean.
03 Saturday Dec 2022
Posted in Mallorca
Today the sun came back out and it was very pleasant weather. We went to Lloseta, a small, attractive village about 30 minutes away from us for lunch. David Palamo at his new restaurant Es Garum (opened last April) provided us with excellent food, and also showed us his own garum, which he makes to flavour his dishes. Garum is a fermented fish sauce, invented by the Greeks or Phoenicians, and heavily used by the Romans throughout their empire. David´s modern version was certainly flavourful! A very nice afternoon out and about.
24 Thursday Nov 2022
I came back to Mallorca yesterday, Sheila will follow on Saturday. The weather is sunny with top temperatures of 22 degrees, very pleasant and great to be back.
22 Saturday Jan 2022
Posted in Mallorca
The weather continues to be sunny, but rather cool. Nightime lows are close to freezing even on the shore here, but it is nice and warm in the sunshine in the afternoons. Today we met with friends to walk around the bird sanctuary in s’Albufera close to Port d’Alcudia where we spent a couple of winters on our sailboat. There were not many birds there, but we enjoyed the walking and then had pizza and cake on our patio.
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Reinhard and Sheila 