Palma shopping
Wednesday 30th April
Palma
The east of Majorca is the place to go for cycling, very flat, and areas like Cala Millor and Cala Bona have the promenade sectioned off for pedestrians and cyclists, several rollerblades too! You can rent out bikes daily or weekly (or like several of the passengers on our flight over, bring your own over with you) you can alternatively rent out family or couple buggies were you sit in a golf buggy like “car” and peddle or an electric bicycle.
Had a hot milk with breakfast,, love “leche” over here, its so much creamier. Luckily for us today the “Palma Express” arrived on time for once arriving before 11 and hitting the shops once we arrived in Palma, at Placa D’Espana, Placa Major and the surrounding areas. We found a great skateboarding shop were Adam got a cool t-shirt, hand made, with only a few made in that design, it’s a Majorcan shop and brand known as “shine” We also found a great t-shirt making shop in the shopping centre area under Placa Major, got a vest top with a tattooed girl on it.
A hot 27* today we dandered around to the historic area near the cathedral, a lovely Spanish woman saw we looked a little lost and confused and offered us useful directions to it (how kind!) We found a beautiful courtyard garden area in partial bloom with a raised area with a stone columned pond with lots of goldfish a lilies in it, surrounded by a wall of pink flowers cascading over the top. Bonita!
I tripped whilst coming out of the garden letting out a surprised kung fu noise causing everyone to turn and stare and Adam to pretend he didn’t know me, I do make the oddest noises
We tried “Cocarrois” a Majorcan pastry, meat or vegetable, the pastry itself seemed slightly sweet yet the filling was a fruity tomato tang with chickpeas, leeks and some other vegetables, very different! We strolled round to “la Llojha” an old church like building near the Palma Port. We sat in the square in front of it, admiring it before strolling around again finding “Spain’s second best ice-cream” yes, that IS what it said on the sign, and it was delicious! Adam got 3 scoops all made with fruit and almost sorbet like, very tasty, I got banoffee, you could taste the bananas they had used to make it, I definitely recommend!
We strolled back to Placa D’Espana finding a large market set up full of foods and hand made jewellery, I had a delicious strawberry infused wine /sangria, very refreshing on this very warm day! Then, before heading for our bus we sat in the park beside it. So relaxing!
Unfortunately however when the express did actually turn up, we were ambushed for it, it was filled to the brim and we were behind the last people allowed on, so annoying! Perhaps a good thing though, there was some British “milly” who kept staring and giving me dirty looks from the bus, she was sitting beside her boyfriend and clearly kept trying to slabber about me but he couldn’t seem to care any less, it was very rude, especially since she made eye contact with me as I watched her do it a couple times.
Thankfully, another bus appeared soon after and we got on, though it didn’t leave for a while it was just nice to be sitting in the bus. Calla tela boca - shut your mouth
WE arrived in good time for some dinner, plain as always but Malibu slush puppies hit the spot! We went to the nearby arcade and had a game of air hockey, needless to say, my competitive streak came out, and I lost! Back in our room we had visitors, ants, which got stamped on. We put the tv on and watched the snooker which has been on all day all week and is also in German! We then went to a nearby cocktail bar called Mint. The waiter put us beside the heat lamp and gave us blankets, got a tasty large creamy Pina colada and continued being competitive by playing cards and winning, and laughing manically as I won ever game! There was live entertainment, a man singing Tom Jones songs, and he was good, however he seemed to believe he was the Spanish version of Tom Jones, he got into the crowd, and had some ejits up dancing too along with the Spanish waiter(and highly probable gay who sort of looked like Johnny form “the Room” waiter) quite a funny environment.