Palma March 2010

And here, without any or further ado, is my slideshow!

I stayed at Ciudad Jardin, a suburb about 7 ish klicks from the town centre. Not a resort as such, it does have a few hotels, the Urban Sea Hotel Portofino and its sister hotel the Playa Azul.

With fish restaurants and marisquerias cheek by gill, plenty of bars and nightspots and a big long stretch of beach with a promenade and bike lane running its entire length to Palma it's a great holiday spot that doesn't feel like its a resort.

Buses ran every 10 minutes from early 'til late and the fare was only €1.25! Even better, they tell you which stop you're at and have a clock on board. This comes in handy when you had an absolute skinful at Viavi and fall asleep on the bus home. When you wake up you have a rough idea how long you've been out of it for.

As always, Palma itself was full of grown up entertainment. Bars with great music at reasonable levels and no speakers outside disturbing folk not in the bar - a total contrast from Ibiza.

Food was great, plenty of tapas, tons of tempura, noodles, sushi, wine from all over the place and more art and culture than you could shake a paintbrush at.

Here's my tip. Don't ever go to a Palma art gallery on Thursday 25th March. That's the day, they change all the exhibitions over, so there's next to nothing to see.