We’re back and we spent a wonderful and very relaxing week in Cala Millor on Mallorca (I looked it up how Mallorca is called in English and it seams to be Majorca which sounds weired for me, so I’ll just keep the Spanish name Mallorca). We started last Wednesday, arrived there in the late afternoon and left this morning with a flight at 8 a.m.
We actually intended to have a beach-only-holiday and so spent the first two to three days lying at the beach, swimming in the sea, sleeping, eating and doing just nothing. Cala Millor ist quite a touristic little town at Mallorca’s eastern coast and the beach is framed by hundreds of huge (and pretty ugly) hotel buildings. We were quite lucky that our hotel was at the end of Cala Millor’s bay and our part of the beach was a lot less crowded.
Nevertheless: Still very touristic.
After our first few days and some sunburns we decided to see some more of Mallorca and booked a round trip. So on Sunday we took off early in the morning and took a trip to the west coast and ended up in Sa Calobra.
Sa Calobra is best known for the wonderful bay we stayed at. All though there were lots of tourists (wikipedia says, there are sometimes more than 30.000 a day!), it still looked like heaven on earth. It’s such a pitty that these places are so crowded and it get’s hard to see it’s beauty because of all the people and tourists. Yes, I was one of them, I just wish there would be a place like this for every single one of us. :)
We left Sa Calobra by boat and went ashore at Port de Sóller, took an old wooden cabel car to Sóller and then switched to a wooden train to Palma. We had a great guide the whole day, Sebastian, a born Mallorcan and a very relaxed and calm person.
On Monday we decided to visit the small nature reserve next to our hotel, Punta de n’Amer. It was quite a funny experience since it was like being at a totally different place and nothing like Cala Millor. It took about one hour (and Max would now say: Only because you had to stop every second step to take yet another photo!) until we reached a little beach bar, where we sat down and drank our first (and only ;)) Sangria.
Next to the beach bar was this defense tower. We climbed on top of it and had a great overview on the whole bay of Cala Millor. The funny thing is that we just went to this little trip because we didn’t know what to do on that day (I still had some of my skin burned and on top of that an allergic reaction, so that I couldn’t swim or lie at the beach), but it was by far the best day of our holiday and the best experience. The round trip had definitely the more spectacular places to see and much more to discover, but on this little trip to Punta de n’Amer, we were on our own, just the two of us and nearly no other tourists.
I was quite stressed the last few months from work and several other things and this sometimes even influenced our relationship. If you’re stressed and chippy from work, you sometimes let this get to other parts of your life, too. This holiday brought as back to our “safe harbour”. We could be who we are and who we were most of the time within the last seven years.
See that? Happy. :)
