For the past five years, my summer holidays have consisted of doing chores, binge-watching tv shows, days out with my grandparents and friends and the odd weekend away. By the third week I've always been so ready to go back to a classroom. This summer was a lot different. I got to travel with my best friends to Spain, and travelled to Canada with my great-grandma. The first in a series of posts documenting my adventures will take a look at my week long getaway to Cala D'or.
As a first holiday with friends away from our parents, we felt like the perfect destination was somewhere simple. All we wanted was nice weather, a beach and a pool to relax next to. All of us had been to Spain before so we knew all about the culture and the language. Cala D'or was familiar to a couple of us and if you've been there before, you'll know it's hard to resist the urge to immediately return. And why would you want to?
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| Cala Ferrera |
The turquoise water may feel freezing at first but is the perfect remedy to skin that has been soaking up the sun for a bit too long. Although we only switched between the Cala Ferrera beach and our hotel pool, there are multiple beaches along the coast of the resort almost exactly the same, including the singing fruit man selling fresh pineapples, watermelons, coconuts and more out of his wheelbarrow.
For lunch we put our GCSE/A Level Spanish to good use and went shopping in the local supermarkets for salchicha, sobrasada (spreadable chorizo - a mallorcan specialty), fresh bread rolls and salad to make our daily picnic for the beach or pool.
For dinner we tried various restaurants in the town centre of Cala D'or apart from our last night when we ventured to the nearby marina. We had the fanciest meals and cocktails any of us had eaten.
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| Cala D'or Marina |
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| Orange and basil mojito |
The holiday overall proved to be big success despite all three of us simultaneously falling asleep in the sun for 45 minutes and having matching sunburn by the end of the first full day. By the second, we had already planned to make the trip an annual event.
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