Despite telling everyone our 2019 travels would be free from pre-planning, we did decide in advance to walk the Fisherman’s Trail in south west Portugal with our daughter Danielle. And so on Saturday May 4th Jo and I were at Lisbon Airport eagerly awaiting Danielle’s...
Jo and I spent our final four Mallorcan days in Palma de Mallorca, the capital city and home to around half of the island’s population of 900,000. In 2015 the UK Sunday Times named Palma de Mallorca the world’s best place to live – and I can sort of see why. It really...
Well I continue to surprise myself. Here I am in Spanish speaking Mallorca in the middle of a yoga and creative writing retreat. Attending, in addition to me and Jolanda, are Sylvia from Switzerland, Louise and Sophie from the UK plus our instructors Stella and Chris....
Jo and I are now two weeks into our stint in Mallorca. For those who don’t know, Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands, is part of Spain and sits around 250km off the coast from Barcelona. Rather than heading straight for the Capital, and largest city, Palma...
It was 1990 the last time I was in Barcelona – with a group of kiwi mates in an old combi that belched smoke and frequently broke down (actually it ended its days only one week later in Madrid). Back then we camped somewhere on the outskirts of the city and...
