A million lifetimes isn’t enough to explore Europe on foot, bicycle or just sightsee. Each time we visit and choose a different country area to explore, it’s love at first sight. In Europe, you can begin the day in one destination, hike/bike or walk around lakes, up and over mountains, visit charming towns on the [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Mallorca”
Travels With Sheila’s 7 Favorite Countries to Hike, Bike, Walk in Europe
February 28th, 2009 
Sheila Simkin 
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Food, Wine and Villas — Adios, Mallorca!
May 26th, 2006 Sheila Simkin Food was uniformly good to excellent everywhere we ate. You’d have to live in Mallorca to eat your way through all the various restaurants. My favorite foods were: Tapas (assorted appetizers); Aioli (a very garlicky mayonnaise); Tumbet (a ratatouille-type dish made with eggplant, zucchini, onions, tomatoes and potatoes); Grilled Calamari (or Squid); and Almond Cake. [...]
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Biking, Golfing and Transportation in Mallorca
May 25th, 2006 Sheila Simkin Biking? If you like to bicycle, there are many groups that lead on- and off-road biking tours. Or grab a map and do it yourself. We were sitting outside after breakfast in Port Soller when a woman bicyclist, dressed all in pink, struck my eye. Not only was she dressed all in pink, but her [...]
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Wandering Around Alcudia, Mallorca
May 24th, 2006 Sheila Simkin The Hotel Daina has a bontiful buffet breakfast. Eggs, bacon, many kinds of rolls, bread, toast, pastries, fresh and dried fruit, yoghurt, watermelon, ham, cheese, sausages, the English staple – baked beans – and, decent coffee. Today is sunny, and hot in Porto Pollensa. one of the squares in Port Pollensa, Mallorca
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Lluc to Puerto Pollenca/Port Pollensa, Mallorca
May 23rd, 2006 Sheila Simkin Our suitcases will be bused to Pollenca while we finish the last section of the GR 221. Breakfast was better than in Port Soller: hot rolls, freshly made croissants, ham and cheese. The coffee in Port Soller was strong and muddy enough to use as grouting material. The Monastery’s coffee tastes like instant dishwaster cut [...]
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Lluc, Mallorca – The Monastery
May 22nd, 2006 Sheila Simkin Suitcases packed and ready for their busride to the Monestery at Lluc. The driver will drop us off at Cuba, and we head in a different direction towards Guia de Lluc. It isn’t as crowded on the trail today now that the 3-day weekend is over for the Spanish. eyeballing today’s route The first part [...]
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On The GR 221 in Mallorca
May 21st, 2006 Sheila Simkin The different portion of the GR 221 today . Our private bus drove us up to Cuba (by the Dam) and let us off to walk down to Soller in a different direction. Each section of the GR had a map detailing the walk. Hikers were usually gathered around soaking in the details, lengthening poles, [...]
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On The Way to Port Soller, Mallorca
May 20th, 2006 Sheila Simkin After a mediocre breakfast at Hotel Marina – the usual selection of rolls, jams, yoghurt,, orange “Tang”-type juice (with 1,000′s of orange groves around, some freshly squeezed would have been nice), etc. And, the worst coffee of the entire trip. Hint #3 – Throw an old washcloth in your suitcase and toss it at the [...]
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Discovering Palma and Port Soller, Mallorca
May 19th, 2006 Sheila Simkin After an extremely hearty breakfast, it was time to roam around Palma. The Port is very active – Cruise Ships coming and going, ferries to Ibiza and Barcelona, and pleasure boats all over the Bay. The Gothic Cathedral is the most important part of Palma. The main gate is from the late Renaissance, finished in [...]
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Palma, Mallorca
May 18th, 2006 Sheila Simkin It is always difficult traveling, arriving in a strange country, jet-lagged with no clue where to go and what to do. And when you arrive and find out that (once again) United/Lufthansa/Spanair managed to lose our bags, you just wonder why bother going anywhere. (The airlines manage to “misplace” 3,000,000 bags per year but this [...]
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