Travel

As first part of this year’s holidays we decided for a 1-week travel to Mallorca to escape the European soccer championships in Vienna a little bit.

Sunday, June 15th
We checked our luggage in in the evening before, as we had to get up early at 4.00am to get the taxi at 4.30am. Due to the soccer whoopee and the early hour we had to pay €30 to the driver in a lump sum; probably we were just stupid enough to believe him. We had clouds over Vienna when the flight started at 5.30am, but they disappeared when we passed Corsica. The airport in Palma de Mallorca is huge, we got our luggage and went to the car rental service to get our Smart. After the usual but this time only little odyssey we reached our hotel in Can Pastilla. We took a walk at the beach, because we had to wait for our room to be finished at 11.30am. We had lunch at one of the Balnearios at the beach promenade. As dinner we had a great buffet at our hotel every evening; I enjoyed the Paella so much, and the fine wine. Later we took a walk to the harbor nearby.