Mallorca
14-21 February 2003

Sights  Weather Accommodation  Rental Car Picture Gallery  Itinerary

Sights:

Worth seeing:

• Its largest city, Palma de Mallorca

• The coast with its long sandy beaches and little coves, especially Platja des Trenc, Cala Mondrágo, Cala Figuera, Cala Pi

• The historic towns of Alcúdia, Pollença, Sóller and Valldemossa (where Frédéric Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838/39)

• The Tramuntana mountains and Cape Formentor

• The weekly market in Sineu (Wednesdays), or other local markets

• The monasteries Lluc, Randa and others

• The blooming almond trees in February

What we didn’t get to see because of rain and snowfall:

• Fornalutx, a village in the mountains nominated prettiest village in Spain

• The area around Andratx, Banyalbufar and Alaró

Weather:

Usually February is a good time to enjoy an early spring in Majorca and explore the beautiful island interior, but we had the opportunity to experience the rainiest February in the history of the Balearic Islands! Roads were flooded, or blocked due to snowfall in the mountains! But February is also the period when the almond trees are in full bloom, which is a very pretty sight!

Accommodation:

Finca S’Hort de sa Begura: http://www.auf-nach-mallorca.de/

Rental Car:

We had booked Hipercar via Flugboerse and there was nothing to complain about. Except that the car has to be returned with an empty tank, which requires some foresight, but this seems to be the common practice.
 

Picture Gallery:
 

Artà

 

Canyamel	Cala Millor

 

Punta N'Amer

 

Porto Colom

 

Cala Figuera
Cala Llombarts

 

Cala Pi

	Capdepera
Santanyi

Almond trees

 

Platja des Trenc

Randa

Palma de Mallorca

 

Flooded Road	Sheep

 

Windmills

	Market
Valldemossa

Alcúdia

 

Cap de Formentor

 

Pollença

Lluc

Sóller

Port de Sóller

Orange and Lemon Trees

Na Foradada	Son Morraig

 Itinerary: