Officially, Germany has 16 individual states. The island of Mallorca is its unofficial 17th state and official holiday hotspot!! If Germans aren’t heading north to the sea…they are in Mallorca. So, we figured we should do the same!
I’m not kidding. Germans are crazy about Mallorca. It’s really ridiculous. I guess I can see why:
We told ourselves that we would actually “vacation” on this trip, instead of “travel” (there IS a difference), but curiosity killed the cat…and the Walls. It’s probably a good thing that we couldn’t sit still: I was starting to drown my stress in wild hibiscus mojitos.
One day, we decided to drive to Sa Calobra, which is only about 19 miles as the crow flies from where we were staying. However, those 19 miles took over an hour and a half! We had about 45 switchbacks AND had to wait while cars drove in reverse to make enough room for the coach busses! Craziness!
And all that work…just to share 100 meters of stony beach with 273 other tourists! It was still pretty cool though. I would recommend Torrent de Pareis to anyone visiting Mallorca.
Torrent de Pareis
I think we successfully squeezed in a few hours of “vacationing”. A+ for effort, at least!
Cala Mesquida