mallorca, spain

This past weekend I took a short trip to mallorca. You might remember when I went menorca (a neighboring island) a couple of years ago. We wanted to have a similar adventure in mallorca; rent a car, drive around, climb mountains, and try and find as many calas (coves) as we can find.

Though we saw some really great scenery in Mallorca, both Anne and I decided that we much rather prefer menorca. Mallorca is bigger which meant that we needed to drive more to get to the next cove. Also, the infrastructure of mallorca is more built up than menorca; there were metal fences and sometimes barbed wire up to prevent people from exploring certain parts of the land.

At any rate, we still saw some amazing scenery and some stunning turquoise water.

The following are pictures that were taken next to the beach where our hostal was; we stayed in a small port town far away from the capital city – palma.

Then we got to our first stop. I’m not for sure it was officially a cove, but it was still beautiful.

Next we drove up a nearby mountain, where we heard that there was a good walking train to get a great view of the area. We stopped to take some pictures right after we got out of our car. Then we headed up more of the mountain on foot. It got to be too steep with no end in sight, so we stopped and headed back down to get back into the car. We still saw some great views though.

Though before we left, we decided to eat lunch at the restaurant that was also on this mountain. The food was ok, but the view was really nice. We took some portraits of each other.

Then as we were driving back down the mountain we stopped a few times to take some more pictures. We saw our first wild goat!

Next, we arrived to our next cove. It was average really, though on one side of the cove there was very beautiful water with a great place to jump into it (if it would have been summer, I just might have jumped in). I took this amazing picture of anne sitting and enjoying the view.

We kept on going in our car until we saw a great, green field of sheep. This time there wasn’t any metal chain linked fence up to block our view. Most of the sheep were wearing bells around there next, so there was a nice, serene bell sound as we just watched the sheep move about.

The next morning we headed south to check out some more coves. I made anne take some “top model” shots.

We left the cove to head to another, but we had to go through this old city that had very narrow streets. I got into a little bind where I thought I wouldn’t be able to get out of a spot, but we some courage (and anne yelling at me) I got us out of the jam.

Then we saw the perfect road to do some jumping shots.

Finally, we made it to our last cove. I can’t believe that people actually live overlooking this kind of water.

I tried to recreate this blue in my porch when I had a house, but I think I missed the mark a bit. Next time I will try and get the color closer to this one.

~ by ronrosenow on March 17, 2009.