Majorca
Majorca
I'm going to Majorca soon with my parents. We're staying in Porto Pollensa (sp?) and I just wondered if anyone's got any restaurants, sights, etc that they recommended? I've been told Palma is a must for a day trip!
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Palma is great for the culture vultures but other things to see are:
Caves of Drach
Olive wood shop
Majorca pearl Factory
Valdemossa (where chopin stayed)
Formentor
Deya (where Michael Douglas and Catherine zeta have their holiday place)
Alcudia market
Sa Colobra (not for the feight hearted :D )
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I love Puerto Pollensa.
We've been there a few times and never tire of it. It's a quaint, relatively quiet resort with a lovely horseshoe beach and beautiful pine-walk that fringes the older part of the beach. The restaurants along the sea-front aren't the best. Head back to the square for a better choice. We liked Tiberi for tapas (best at night when there's a great atmosphere with lots of candles), El Mojito for good Cuban folk music and the best mojitos I've ever tasted (but the food is crap and over-priced, so avoid).
There's a local market in Puerto on Wednesday mornings in the village square - well worth a visit. Great fruit and veg stalls, some jewellery and leather goods, plus textiles etc. Look out for the 'bunyol' man - he has a stall selling tiny doughnuts doused in sugar which he makes in front of you ... we got through 26 for breakfast one morning. :o
From Puerto you can catch a bus to the old town of Pollensa a few miles inland - it's a lovely old town with craft shops,a handful of tapas bars in the square, some atmospheric churches and ... if you're prepared to walk up the 365 Calvari steps ... a wonderful view of the surrounding countryside.
Alcudia's a typical resort but it has an interesting old town and Roman ruins. We stopped for pizza at Don Vito's and it got top marks.
We took a day trip to Soller, which involves a hair-raising trip over the mountains and down into the port of Soller. There's time to take a boat-trip round the bay (we opted to stay in the town and visit some craft shops) and then catch an old wooden train back through the orange and lemon groves back to Palma, through lots of draughty tunnels, so take a jacket.
Preferred the caves at Arta to those at Drach, but you'd need to hire a car to get to them. They're not so commercialised and IMO the stalagmite/stalactite formations are more spectacular.
Have fun!
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hello
would echo what Goldie has said - I even have a photo or two of the bunyol man :o :D
we hired a car for a couple of days and it was really good. We also took the bus to Palma and stayed overnight and then took the wooden train over to Soller, we then took the tram down to Port de Soller and then the bus back to Puerto Pollensa - it was a great wee mini trip and the sightseeing and tapas in Palma was fantastic. If you go to Port de Soller there is a fab wee cafe (that looks fairly crap from the outside) that has a glass fronted bar with all their tapas things laid out in little trays - it's the sort of place that has locals inside or tourists across the street drinking beer but their meatballs were fantastic and very garlicky. I don't have names at the moment but I can find them for you.
In Puerto Pollensa there is a street that is pedestrianised that is about one block back and parallel with the front stretch near the roundabout - on one corner there is a glass and timber restaurant that has seats inside and out and little lamps on the tables - it is very good though not that cheap. The other one that we really liked, more for atmosphere rather than food was out along the pine walk and it looks like someones front garden. There is a huge fig tree that hangs over the space and at night it is really lovely to sit and watch the world go by. You might have to book though as it does get busy.
We did alot of walking when we were there and walked back from the monastery in the middle to Pollensa which was lovely but quite tough going. The walks over to cala san vincente and in the Boquer valley are good though the Boquer valley beach at the end is usually not very clean.
we found this a great website.
Top tip - use the buses, they are good value for money and run on time!
enjoy :)
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I even have a photo or two of the bunyol man :o :D
I reckon he must be the most-photographed bunyol man in the whole of Spain. I've got photos too! :o
The other one that we really liked, more for atmosphere rather than food was out along the pine walk and it looks like someones front garden. There is a huge fig tree that hangs over the space and at night it is really lovely to sit and watch the world go by. You might have to book though as it does get busy.
That looked GORGEOUS. I'm pretty sure it's called The Fig Tree or El Higo/La Higuera - summat like that. It didn't strike me as being the sort of place to take the girls, so we gave it a miss, but it looked really lovely.
I'm going to Majorca soon with my parents. We're staying in Porto Pollensa (sp?) and I just wondered if anyone's got any restaurants, sights, etc that they recommended? I've been told Palma is a must for a day trip!
Answers:
Palma is great for the culture vultures but other things to see are:
Caves of Drach
Olive wood shop
Majorca pearl Factory
Valdemossa (where chopin stayed)
Formentor
Deya (where Michael Douglas and Catherine zeta have their holiday place)
Alcudia market
Sa Colobra (not for the feight hearted :D )
Answers:
I love Puerto Pollensa.
We've been there a few times and never tire of it. It's a quaint, relatively quiet resort with a lovely horseshoe beach and beautiful pine-walk that fringes the older part of the beach. The restaurants along the sea-front aren't the best. Head back to the square for a better choice. We liked Tiberi for tapas (best at night when there's a great atmosphere with lots of candles), El Mojito for good Cuban folk music and the best mojitos I've ever tasted (but the food is crap and over-priced, so avoid).
There's a local market in Puerto on Wednesday mornings in the village square - well worth a visit. Great fruit and veg stalls, some jewellery and leather goods, plus textiles etc. Look out for the 'bunyol' man - he has a stall selling tiny doughnuts doused in sugar which he makes in front of you ... we got through 26 for breakfast one morning. :o
From Puerto you can catch a bus to the old town of Pollensa a few miles inland - it's a lovely old town with craft shops,a handful of tapas bars in the square, some atmospheric churches and ... if you're prepared to walk up the 365 Calvari steps ... a wonderful view of the surrounding countryside.
Alcudia's a typical resort but it has an interesting old town and Roman ruins. We stopped for pizza at Don Vito's and it got top marks.
We took a day trip to Soller, which involves a hair-raising trip over the mountains and down into the port of Soller. There's time to take a boat-trip round the bay (we opted to stay in the town and visit some craft shops) and then catch an old wooden train back through the orange and lemon groves back to Palma, through lots of draughty tunnels, so take a jacket.
Preferred the caves at Arta to those at Drach, but you'd need to hire a car to get to them. They're not so commercialised and IMO the stalagmite/stalactite formations are more spectacular.
Have fun!
Answers:
hello
would echo what Goldie has said - I even have a photo or two of the bunyol man :o :D
we hired a car for a couple of days and it was really good. We also took the bus to Palma and stayed overnight and then took the wooden train over to Soller, we then took the tram down to Port de Soller and then the bus back to Puerto Pollensa - it was a great wee mini trip and the sightseeing and tapas in Palma was fantastic. If you go to Port de Soller there is a fab wee cafe (that looks fairly crap from the outside) that has a glass fronted bar with all their tapas things laid out in little trays - it's the sort of place that has locals inside or tourists across the street drinking beer but their meatballs were fantastic and very garlicky. I don't have names at the moment but I can find them for you.
In Puerto Pollensa there is a street that is pedestrianised that is about one block back and parallel with the front stretch near the roundabout - on one corner there is a glass and timber restaurant that has seats inside and out and little lamps on the tables - it is very good though not that cheap. The other one that we really liked, more for atmosphere rather than food was out along the pine walk and it looks like someones front garden. There is a huge fig tree that hangs over the space and at night it is really lovely to sit and watch the world go by. You might have to book though as it does get busy.
We did alot of walking when we were there and walked back from the monastery in the middle to Pollensa which was lovely but quite tough going. The walks over to cala san vincente and in the Boquer valley are good though the Boquer valley beach at the end is usually not very clean.
we found this a great website.
Top tip - use the buses, they are good value for money and run on time!
enjoy :)
Answers:
I even have a photo or two of the bunyol man :o :D
I reckon he must be the most-photographed bunyol man in the whole of Spain. I've got photos too! :o
The other one that we really liked, more for atmosphere rather than food was out along the pine walk and it looks like someones front garden. There is a huge fig tree that hangs over the space and at night it is really lovely to sit and watch the world go by. You might have to book though as it does get busy.
That looked GORGEOUS. I'm pretty sure it's called The Fig Tree or El Higo/La Higuera - summat like that. It didn't strike me as being the sort of place to take the girls, so we gave it a miss, but it looked really lovely.