Greetings from sunny Majorca or Mallorca depending whose spelling you use.
Gills sister Mandy and her husband Chris kindly offered us the use of their boat for a week so here we are living the high life in a flash marina in a place called Portals Nous. The boat is quite large so we invited our friends Gael and Ray to join us so we can pretend to be rich brits hosting on our boat in the med. Once here no one will know we did not fly in by private jet but caught a Ryanair flight from Birmingham which cost £27! As the departure tax is £13 the flights only cost £14 each, that's £1 less than the 2 mile taxi ride to our hotel, no wonder they don't give free drinks on the plane. What is even stranger there is no discount for buying a return so we are flying Easyjet back to Bristol next week, I can never seem to get my head round airline pricing.
The aim of the week is to eat a lot of nice food, drink the odd bottle of wine and perhaps do a bit of walking in the hills, to take the boat out for a run will involve hiring a skipper and taking out a mortgage to pay for the fuel, I might become a supporter of the greens to avoid that sort of expense but we shall see.
As we arrived very late on Thursday we stayed in a very touristy hotel next to the airport on Thursday night (picture opposite), it was fine for the one night but it did remind us why we don't go on package holidays, it was very large and souless.