A Monastery and a Market

My daughter and I had a day trip to San Salvador Monastery and Felanitx Market. The monastery was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1011. At 500 metres high and overlooking Felanitx it's Majorca's second most important place of pilgrimage. Originally pilgrims had to walk the narrow paths to the summit, passing Stations of the Cross and stopping at the wayside shrine. It looked like it would be a nice walk. In 1961 a new road was built and visitors can now drive to the top, negotiating steep inclines and sharp turns, some of which needed a couple of forward and reverse manoueuvres by our coach driver!

Part of the monastery has been converted into a hotel. It has about a dozen satellites on the roof, cunningly concealed here by a tree!

The church within the monastery was very pretty inside, with a light show and music

This giant statue of Christ is 37 metres high.

A rare photo of moi, I'm usually behind the camera

I don't know if she was ferel or owned. She looked healthy and content.

I love a good market, and we were expected to haggle, which my daughter did with great gusto. My son-in-law has always done it but Amanda hasn’t until this holiday, there was no stopping her! Unfortunately we didn't have much time to spend here, barely enough time for lunch and to have a good look around.

Nice Boats

A trip into Cala D'or wouldn't be complete without checking out the marina. 

The boats were gorgeous

and look, I found a "Mojo" !! :-)

After fantasising about winning the lottery and which boat we would choose 

I chose this one below.

 Time for a well-earned coffee followed by some retail therapy. 

Up Next: A Monastery and A Market

Majorca

Woke up it was a first class landing and looking out all around 

I saw people wearing coats and a fine mist on the ground

It was 11pm, I knew it wouldn't be warm,
I hoped for mild but it was cold and I was glad I had taken a lovely warm fleece!
We had arrived back from a 7 day stay in Majorca, 7 days of wonderful hot weather. 
Wednesday was our first full day with a daytime temp of 28 deg
rising steadily to 32 deg for our last day. 
Gloriously scorchio.

Myself, my grandson, my daughter and my son-in-law have had a great holiday
in the pretty resort of Ferrera Beach, Cala D’or.  

Before the holiday I was feeling a bit lacklustre about my blogging,
has that happened to you? Hopefully I can find a mojo soon. 
Meanwhile I would like to share some holiday photos with you.

I was very impressed with EasyJet, a vast improvement from the early days.

The resort was lovely with all amenities 

and the beach was a short steep walk away - 80 steps! it sounds a lot,
but it was ok and I soon got used to it. 
I looked upon it as exercise to offset all the ice creams I ate, and Burger Kings!! 

The beach was one of many small bays. 

Up Next: Nice Boats