my mobile office in mallorca, ES

what a wonderful mobil work opportunity from the spanish holiday island mallorca 🐋🌞🍀

i used to work 1, 2 or even 3 weeks a year from premantura (istria, HR) in a 2 room appartment the last few years. this time we have decided to try the hotel cala fornells close to peguera (sometimes paguera) in mallorca, spain, ES. as my wife was already 3 times in that hotel few years ago, we knew the mobile work would function fine ...

despite plenty of work, there is still some vaccation aspect here as i can easily go to swim in the sea before breakfast, in my lunch break, after work ... i couldnt be all day at the beach, anyway. and yes, there is a weekend, too! 

today (saturday) we've just visited a small beach calo d'en monjo in a forest area just 15 minutes away from our hotel. we could swim nicely as there were no motor boats almost all the time and i tried out my old snorkeling equipment. on our way back i've collected 2 bags of (mostly plastic) trash, later rested a lot. so a really nice day for a nature & environment pretection activist like me, wouldnt you say? well, for tomorrow we have booked an organized day trip to the capitol palma + to the small hills in the northwest of the island around valldemossa + to some cave ... and next weekend we will have a rental car just to visit the unesco heritage mountains of serra de tramuntana and its hills + cliffs + cities / villages liek soller, sa calobra, ...

well, looking back, the organized trip was not really nice as there was too much on the agenda. with just four instead of six topics it would be more convenient and much nicer, if they asked me .. at least we've learned a lot abt the island and the life here 😇

our mallorca stops this time:

• cala fornells bay ~ southwestern mallorca ~ our home base for 2 weeks
• calo d'en monjo bay
• peguera / paguera
• valldemossa ~ western mallorca ~ best known as the stay for the french baroness george sand and her lover, the polish componist frederik chopin
• suburbs of palma ~ this coffee break in a 'traditional' mallorquin coffee shop was quite stressful and not worth the time spent there as we were a bus with 30-40 people ... just the almonds there were fine ...
• santa maria del cami ~ nothing special out there. we have just visited a weekly market. i liked more the church here
• aristocratic family's rural house / castle els calderers from 1750 somewhere in the pampas ~ this was really great. i liked to visit this castle & museum like property a lot
• (there was the rafael 'rafa' nadal's tennis academy in manacor, but we've just drove beside it)
• porto cristo limestone caves ~ eastern mallorca
• palma ~ southwestern mallorca ~ the capital of mallorca & the baleares islands. btw, the name baleares comes from the sligshot weapon as the mallorquines were masters of throwing small stones with their ropes at their enemies ... ~ castle, old city, harbor, agricultural wind mills all over the plains around palma ...
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• puerto andratx (or often porto andratx)  ~ southwestern mallorca
• sant elm ~ fishermen' village
• mirador d'en ricardo roca ~ a fast food restaurant with really bad food and fantastic view over the cliffs of the west mallorca's coast ~ western mallorca
• deia ~ historical city full of old stonemade houses  + churches
• port de soller  ~ western mallorca
• lighthouse far des cap gros
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• gorg blau ~ the almost empty artificial water reservoir
• the 682m high pass coll dels reis
• city of soller ~ western mallorca
• sa calobra + torrent de pareis (seasonal river) in a beautiful gorge in the serra tramuntana mountains, mallorca's unesco heritage. the highest peak here is the puig major 1445m. unfortunately, this peak is not accessible for the public due to some stupid military zone / radio transmission station on its top.
• lluc monastery in the serra tramuntana mountains

enjoy few pictures. okay, lets be honest, enjoy (too) many pictures. many of them were made by my wife. can you tell the difference? 😇

hotel cala fornells

my office for 2 weeks. nice, isnt it? 💻🍀🍵

small beach calo d'en monjo

our breakfast table

cala fornells bay

hotel cala fornells, the 1st hotel here with the best access to the beach

... the roof top swimming pool area

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coming next:

santa catalina of valldemossa

frederic chopin + george sand, valldemossa

santa maria del cami

a really nice manor in els calderers

porto cristo limestone caves ~ eastern mallorca

castle + cathedral in palma, the capital of mallorca

windmills in the agricultural area close to palma

puerto andratx

sant elms

mirador d'en ricardo roca

deia

city + port of soller

gorg blau

respect, maximum respect for those bicycle guys and girls 

sa calobra ~ serra tramuntana, mallorca, spain

lluc monastery

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valldemossa

valldemossa

frederic chopin + george sand, valldemossa

santa maria del cami

a really nice manor in els calderers

porto cristo limestone caves ~ eastern mallorca

there are sooo many nice windmills around palma  

castle + cathedral in palma, the capital of mallorca

in palma. is it arts? 😄

puerto andratx

sant elms

somewhere down the road

mirador d'en ricardo roca

the food was not any special, but the views! 

=> just drink a beer or coffee there 👹

deia

deia by wikipedia english (source of the picture)

on the road in serra tramuntana 🚗

port + city of soller

st. bartomeu church in soller by wikipedia

port + city of soller

the historical tram in soller. 

btw, they've a historical train coming from palma, too

gorg blau ~ the almost empty artificial water reservoir

lets go to sa calobra ~ serra tramuntana, mallorca, spain

respect, maximum respect for those bicycle guys and girls 😇

lets go to the other side ... will we?

thats the other side in sa calobra 🌞🌊🌋

mallorca's highest peak puig major 1445m in serra tramuntana is

not accessible to the public due to military equipment up there 

the road to sa calobra, serra tramuntana mountains, unesco heritage

sa calobra, serra tramuntana, unesco heritage

lluc abbey

lluc monastery

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how does my wife see the world? who knows? btw, could you tell the difference which pictures were made by her and which are truly mine? 😂

she does see more flowers + plants, doesnt she? 😍

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back home to munich

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even few more pictures here 😀

south tirol ~ peitlerkofel 2875m + neustift abbey, IT

as every august for 6 or 7 years, my wife provides a seminar for teachers in neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella) in south tirol (südtirol), italy, IT. my highlight this year was the hiking tour around the peitlerkofel mountain (2875m) in the dolomiti area of the italian alps ... btw, neustift was the last stage at our central europe journey this august. you still remember the previous stops?

• poland (schloss braunau / castle brunow)
• czech republic (schloss plumau / castle plumlov)
• austria (ebensee)
• germany (höglwörther kloster + see)
• italy (neustift abbey)

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... probably in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay? .... i love hills + hiking in the hills, so possibly there will be too many mountain pictures below. you dont mind, do you? 😇🌋🌞🌲

early morning at peitlerkofel (sass de putia) 2875m

after 5 hours we've reached the end of our walk around the peitlerkofel massif

two of us

do not ask me today how was this cottage 'behind the hill' called

starting and ending point is the würzjoch pass (passo delle erbe) at 1982m

parking at würzjoch right below the ütia de börz cottage at 2006m

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neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella)

the engelsburg (angels' castle) at the neustift monastery

two of us

our room in the monastery and my mobile office for 2 days

few pictures were taken by my wife. can you tell the difference? 😂

brückenwirt = our favorite restaurant in neustift, südtirol

few more pictures here.