Holiday – Majorca (9th day) – Es Tossals Verdes

Puig de S’Alcadena, mountain shelter, me on the Puig des Tossals Verds and the view over Embalse de Gorg Blau countryside. Today it was time for the Es Tossals Verdes. We started from the car park at the Embassament de Cúber – the biggest water supply dam on Majorca – and walked along the Serra d’Amos (842 m weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (8th day) – Sóller

Church, exhibition in the railway station, me in the ice cream factory and a traditional tram. Sóller is about 3.5 km away from Fornalutx and with a population of 13,000 a „mid-sized“ city on Majorca. Downtown there is a nice church at the village square which is surrounded by small cafes. In the railway station weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (7th day) – L’Ofre

Me mountain hiking, L’Ofre, swedish tourists and an aborigine :o) And again it was time for another mountain hiking from Fornalutx (99 m MSL) via Biniaraix (120 m MSL) passing Es Cornadors to the point of Coll de L’Ofre (890 m MSL) with a panoramic view on the mountain L’Ofre (1,093 m MSL) and water supply weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (6th day) – Torrent de Pareis

Cala de sa Calobra, me in the Torrent de Pareis (can you find me on the right upper pic?) and the convent Santuari de Lluc. After a day of relaxing it was time again for an adventure. This time we had a walking tour from Port de Sa Calobra through the Torrent de Pareis. Not weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (5th day) – The Google Story

Studying The Google Story.  After the first exhausting, but awesome walking-tours in the last days it was time to relax in the hotel. I started to read the book ‚The Google Story – Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology of Our Time‚. The book was an old birthday gift from Marcus Ladwig, but I never weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (4th day) – Banyalbufar

Tramp signage, Banyalbufar, Port des Canonage and Valldemossa. This walking tour was very comfortable. On the walk from Banyalbufar (90 m MSL) to the Port d’es Canonge (10 m MSL) you only have to conquer a difference in altitude of 80 m. This charming route running along the coast (Punta Galera, Cavall Bernet, Punta de S’Aguila, Cala weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (3rd day) – Fornalutx

City map, mountain view, an alley and a church. Today it was time to discover our small mountain village Fornalutx. This village is about 2 km away from Sóller, with a view on the village Biniaraix and the mountain chain Serra de Son Torrella. And from my hotel Sa Tanqueta you can even see the weiterlesen…

Holiday – Majorca (2nd day) – Port de Sóller

Orange plantation, Port de Sóller, me at the beach and good looking, but not very tasty dinner. My first walking tour (about 7.5 km one way) was through Sóller to Port de Sóller. In the Tramuntana mountains you will see very many orange and citron plantations. Port de Sóller it a small city surrounded by mountains with nice bays weiterlesen…