the little island of Mallorca

Don't ask me how I managed to put it off blogging about it for so long.. Mallorca was a wicked awesome trip and worth mentioning. It was kind of an impromptu thing back in early December; bmibaby.com was having a special on flights to the little Spanish island in the Mediterranean and friend and I decided that it was time to get away from the dreary weather of Wales and go exploring for a bit, so with just a few days of trip planning and backpack in tote we set off to take in some sun, eat some tapas, and relax before our final papers for the semester were do.

We got in late on a Monday night and took a cab to the hostel we had booked. I've gotta mention that there was a moment were the driver took us through the most run down part of Playa, which felt more like a trip through border town Mexico (oh how I miss those trips to Juarez) than the Meditoranian gem that were looking forward to, where we both looked at eachother and silently mouthed a "what the f*#@." The moment was however short lived, as the road took us down to the beach and to our hostel.

Side Note, aka hostel plug: [Colin and, and... oh well I cant remember the other guys name, were a couple of blokes from the UK who decided they wanted to live the dream, so they moved to Spain and opened a little hostel, which was actually more like a hotel with separate rooms and showers and what not, all for 15euro a night (Mallorca turned out to be uber cheap - ill get to more of that in a minute...).]

With our hostel and everything in check we spent the next couple days exploring the towns of Arenal, and Palma. Everywhere we went we saw these signs. Im not so good at spanish, but i think they had something to do with the holidays. -hehe


Jensina outside the La Sui Palma Cathedral




We were eager to see the rest of the island and decided to rent a car (35euro for 5 days thru www.doyouspain.com - told you spain was cheap!) You can pretty much get anywhere on the island in less than an hour, so we picked a little blue thing that I decided to pose on

and Jencina managed to wreck into a fence - ha


Driving around and checking things out turned out to be the highlight of the trip. The island has a maze of little roads that wind through orange, walnut, and olive groves to secluded little beaches.