36 Hours in Mallorca
Mar 27th 2009, 3:32 pm
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36 Hours in Mallorca
Nice article today in the NY Times:
MAJORCAN summers are infamous for the swells they attract: the billionaires on their megayachts, the movie stars at their mountain estates. Michael Douglas has a house in Deià, and in nearby Sóller, there is an outpost of the Ashram, Malibu’s answer to asceticism, at which studio heads pay thousands of dollars a week to eat like vegan hippies. Then there’s that other summer crowd, the European lads who flood the developments that spread out from lovely, medieval Palma and make the beach scenes there cautionary tales of the evils of alcohol. During the off-season, which runs from fall to early summer, however, this mountainous, gnarled island is largely yours. Set yourself up with a rental car (there’s a lot of driving to be done on this island) and prepare to be hypnotized by ancient terraced landscapes with twisted olive trees, the tiny medieval villages and the extraordinary food and wine.
Rest of it it is here:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/29...l/29hours.html
MAJORCAN summers are infamous for the swells they attract: the billionaires on their megayachts, the movie stars at their mountain estates. Michael Douglas has a house in Deià, and in nearby Sóller, there is an outpost of the Ashram, Malibu’s answer to asceticism, at which studio heads pay thousands of dollars a week to eat like vegan hippies. Then there’s that other summer crowd, the European lads who flood the developments that spread out from lovely, medieval Palma and make the beach scenes there cautionary tales of the evils of alcohol. During the off-season, which runs from fall to early summer, however, this mountainous, gnarled island is largely yours. Set yourself up with a rental car (there’s a lot of driving to be done on this island) and prepare to be hypnotized by ancient terraced landscapes with twisted olive trees, the tiny medieval villages and the extraordinary food and wine.
Rest of it it is here:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/29...l/29hours.html
Mar 27th 2009, 8:56 pm
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Re: 36 Hours in Mallorca
Nice trip down memory lane.. 
Do we have any members living on Mallorca? Specifically in Deià?
I think it's a little fancier up there now than when I lived there...
Do we have any members living on Mallorca? Specifically in Deià?
I think it's a little fancier up there now than when I lived there...
