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The name Mallorca might make you think of pork parties or a destination filled with noisy and demanding tourists. I can tell you that Mallorca has passed that stage and returned to a harmonic joint existence between locals and travelers. At least viewed from my perspective, as a tourist. We were based in the old parts of the largest city of the island, Palma de Mallorca, and at least in September the tourist invasion didn’t feel particularly dominating. Palma de Mallorca is an urban, vibrant city with clean streets, green trees and comfy small alleys, where cars are scarce. And all this is dominated by the mighty, beautiful Palma cathedral.  

Many think of just sun and warmth when talking about Mallorca, but there is a lot to see in the island as well. The bus network is extensive, but we chose a museum railway when going from Palma to Söller in the northwest. The train journey covers mountain landscapes and small villages. The destination Söller is divided into two parts: the train stops at mountain village Söller, but you have the option to continue by tram to beach village Söller. Both are picturesque and well worth a visit.  

The restaurants of Mallorca concentrate their roll-in on tapas. Tourists usually choose typical Spanish tapas such as potato omelette, air-dried ham, Manchego cheese or cod croquettes, but you might be happily surprised if you choose the own tapas specials of the restaurant. We tried oven-baked iberico ham, salmon tartar and toast with Mahón cheese and honey. When we asked for typical traditional dishes, we received sausage spread called sobrasada (also the dark version that contains intestines!). Both sobrasada and butifarra sausages were extremely tasty. In Söller you might try oranges for example as fresh juice or in ice cream, because the Söller oranges are particularly sweet.  

Maybe it is the joint living of tourists and locals that make you feel so welcome in Palma. The locals speak tourist languages and as a tourist you do not feel uncomfortable or as a money-making object when interacting with the Spaniards. Everything seems to work well and we felt very relaxed after less than a week under the sun of the island. 

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