Menorca 2010

We've just returned from the *most* relaxing week in Menorca. It really is becoming our favourite place for the really chilled type of holiday where you manage to forget about work, life,  and anything other than sunny weather, chilled wine and fabulous food!

We were there a couple of years ago (blogged here) and this year decided to go back with our friends Sue and Pete (who we went to the 1980's concert with at Tatton Park).

Now it's always interesting when you go on holiday with someone for the 1st time. I think people have widely differing 'holiday personalities' which may be very different from their normal selves at home, but I think I can unequivocally state -  It was a match made in heaven!

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Reading - Pete brought his book reader - the rest of us, just the paper things. By the end of the trip I had started my 6th book, Pete on his 5th, and Sue and Dan weren't all that far behind with 3 and 4 respectively. You KNOW you've had plenty of relaxation time if you can read 5 whole books in 7 days.







Eating - Well it wouldn't be a holiday without our obligatory schlepp around the local supermarket and delving into the world of  "oooh what's this, lets try it" . Particular highlights were the braised calf's tongue ordered by Dan, a vegetable dish whose name I can't remember ordered by Sue @ the Tapas bar near the harbour and of course, the famous Camping Potatoes (seen here being cooked on our BBQ at home - yes that's correct, on the BBQ in a PAN, and also a pic of them being cooked whilst camping @ the delightful Barn Farm)

Drinking - well I know you mostly know us - and to think we'd be away on holiday without a mention of any wine would be wrong! So, yes, a small amount of alcohol was consumed!!!! The main tipple for the girls was PINK FIZZ and beer for the boys. An honorable mention goes to the Pomada and Special Sangria at the bar about 1/2 way down the main strip - it helped us, shall we say, "forget" our woes, work, lives, and by the end of the night, names, on our 1st evening in Menorca!




 So, do you want to see what the place was like then?

We had a spectacular villa from the fabulous JamesVillas - Villa Tramontana and the location was here - in Cala Blanca (spot the triangular garden!)

I think it has to be said that the brochure people used a fish-eye lens whilst doing the promotional shots, but apart from thinking it was a bit smaller than it looks on the photos, the place very much lived up to our expectations.


All in all it was a superb holiday - I can barely remember work - so, as we said to Pete and Sue as we said goodbye at Manchester Airport - same time next year????

All the rest of the pictures should appear in the Picasa Web Album feed over to the right there - but if not here's the link > Menorca 2010