Stop Wineing

You certainly realise how unadvanced your own little world is when you arrive in the Big City. Not only does Palma have talking bilingual bendy buses, but it also has a computer controlled wine bar!

When we were in London, we paid - and I still haven't got over the shock - £7.60 for two glasses of quite ordinary wine in a quite ordinary pub. I strolled into 'Wineing' last night and couldn't believe my eyes.

You're given a credit card which you put in a machine which dispenses wine from an array of bottles. There are 3 sizes of wine, a 60 cents snifter, a €1.20 half a glass, and a €2.40 glass. When you've helped yourself to some fine reds from all over Spain and Mallorca, there are also whites and that other one, the pinky looking one.

The idea is that you sample away until you find one you really, really like and then buy a whole bottle to go with your tempura cod tapas.

If this sounds good, then it gets better because 'Wineing' is one of 11 bars in the Lonja (old town) area that are in a scheme called Viavi to promote wine and tapa consumtion by offering both for €1.50 each on the last Thursday of every month. ie today!!!!!!

I think I only missed out on two of the bars and you may spot me in more than one photo on the Viavi site

Anyway, after all that excitement, i went to the Jazz Voyeur club and saw this band