Man, it has been a long time since I have blogged. So I thought it was about time I picked back up writing after our week-long vacation in Mallorca, Spain. It was an amazing trip. I definitely want to go back there again sometime. I find more I like about the island each time I go back. We did so much in those 7 days, I think it is unfair to write it all into one post. So I am going to do a series of posts on Mallorca. Why we vacation there and what makes it so special to us.
My wife and I were very long overdue for an extended vacation for just the two of us. How did we decide on Mallorca? Well, for most Americans, this is not a common place to visit on a trip to Europe. But we do have a history of Mallorca as this was our third time visiting the island.
The first visit to the island was in the summer of 2004 when we both had finished our last semester of college. She spent her last semester in Austria and I flew over to spend a few weeks in Europe with her. I had never heard of Mallorca before, but my wife heard about it from other international students from Europe. We were short on money at this time of our lives, so one of the biggest things was that flights were cheap to Mallorca. They also had a Marriott resort and we had enough points to spend a few nights for free. Lastly, the beaches are amazing there as well as the weather.
We didn’t really know what to expect the first time we went there. The weather was great, food was cheap and good, and the local people were very friendly to tourists. We spent most of our time right in the city of Palma, which is the biggest city on the island We did not have a rental car, so we missed seeing a lot of the island. Because we enjoyed our first Mallorca vacation so much, we vowed to come back again.
Not long after finishing college, I proposed to my wife and we started planning our honeymoon. We thought about some of the common places for Americans, such as Hawaii, Florida and some of the Caribbean islands. We just kept coming back to Mallorca. We felt that there was so much we didn’t see the first time and so much more to do.
In addition to having our honeymoon there, our wedding dinner was also Mallorcan themed. We were really fortunate that our chef who planned our wedding reception dinner had studied and worked in Mallorca as a chef. When we told him we were going there for our honeymoon, he was really excited. We then decided to do a Mallorcan themed dinner since he enjoyed cooking that type of food and had experience with it. The dinner was amazing. We had 5 small courses and each one was a traditional Mallorcan dish.
Instead of going to Mallorca for our third time, we thought about going other places for this trip. Such as Cinque Terre, Nice, a few places in Switzerland or somewhere else close by. But my wife really wanted to go back to Mallorca. I was tempted to try something new, but I am really glad we went back. We had another amazing trip and saw many new places. We definitely want to go back again sometime. It is such a lovely place.
