Latin mixes in the clubs. Imagine Lady Ga Ga’s Poker Face mixed with Latin beats and you can understand why we were out dancing until 5.30am every single night. It doesn’t matter the venue. If the music is good, the night can stretch for hours. And that’s exactly what happened at Moon during our first night in Palma. We were all completely exhausted. It was a Friday night (and Friday nights are always a write-off because we’re always so tired after the long work week), we’d just had dinner and were about to go back to the hotel but decided to have just ONE drink. Well, the ONE drink turned into 6 hours of dancing, drinking and inappropriate silliness.
Dancing to Latin music all night long. Because I must have been Latin in another life, anything Latin energizes me like nothing else! I don’t remember for how long, with who or to what song, but we girls spent hours and hours and hours salsa-ing our way through the night.
Wellies brunch at Puerto Portal. Puerto Portal is about 15 minutes cab ride from Palma. It’s a very posh beach town. We went for a long brunch – monk fish, banoffee pie, cappuccino and chocolate bombs – under the warm warm warm sun.
Maria gets engaged to Pete the army boy from Seattle who is stationed in Germany. And then gets divorced. It was Maria’s birthday weekend celebration and as such, she had the free pass to do whatever she wanted, with full knowledge that we would take good care of her. Well, she got engaged to some random guy we met on Friday night and then abruptly broke it off in the cab ride home at 6am. =) He even got her a blinky ring! Poor Pete. =)
Lambrusco. Sparlking, sweet, red wine! The kind that you can drink non-stop without noticing its effects. Delicious stuff! Great with tapas!
Tapas. My favourite thing about traveling to Spain is being able to have fantastic, cheap food! RBK tapas just two blocks from our hotel was amazing. Very local, packed full of people at 1am on a Saturday night and so so cheap.
We lost a purse. A passport. A wallet. And an iPod. And an hour later we found the purse, the passport, and the wallet. The iPod and cash were gone, but at least we didn’t have to make our way to the Greek embassy in Madrid to get Maria another passport, to ensure that she could get back to work on Monday morning. Near disaster, but not quite – thankfully!
La Sue Cathedral. It’s gothic, it’s huge and it’s the only cathedral in Europe situated next to the sea. From afar, it’s extremely impressive. We sat by the wall outside the church listening to guitar music.
Acai berry fruit salad. We had this for breakfast on Saturday morning. Refreshing, great for a hangover and apparently a fantastic antioxidant for your skin.
Our lack of cultural sightseeing, in exchange for dancing, lounging, coffee-ing and sunbathing. I know that this top ten list is anything but culturally enlightening. To be honest, Mallorca didn’t turn out to be a cultural-discovery type of destination. It’s a party island and party we did. =)
