Non Ibiza Holidays

Now that the adverts for Marks and Spencer and Boots have at last finished, Christmas has at last gone for another year, then it's time for the holiday and Easter egg adverts to appear.

We've already booked our first holiday for next year using good old Owners Direct and we're going back to Mallorca. This time we're not going to Deia as we did in October because

to get there or back from anywhere involved a 15 minute drive in second gear up tortuous, winding mountain roads

it was a village which not only completely lacked any atmosphere or sense of being in Spain, but also was full of restaurants which were lacking in customer service and good food but had a surfit of high prices. We got up and walked out of two places because of this!!

So this time we're off to Soller, the main town of the Sierra Tramuntana area, which is easily reached by road and rail, has some great bars and restaurants, and people actually live there.

It has a feel of a mini Barcelona because of its modernist architecture, but without the painful trendiness of the Catalan capital!

In April we've booked a 4 bedroom house in the middle of town and are taking the old dears along with us. We're collecting them at the airport the day after we arrive.

Here's the terrace of the house

and a bedroom

looks smashing doesn't it?