My friend Nellie Huang, writer of the one-stop travel guide WhyGo Spain, has offered to extoll the virtues of Mallorca, a romantic Spanish island not far from her home in Granada. When Adam and I went to Spain in 2007, we didn’t have enough time to see Andalucía, Barcelona and Mallorca, so I’m thrilled that Nellie is willing to share.
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Mallorca's northern tip, Cala Formentor
Earlier that week, my fiancé and I had arrived on Mallorca for our summer vacation — and we were very pleasantly surprised.
Despite what we’d been told, there were no truckloads of tourists or noisy, half-drunk college students. Instead of pumping techno music, we could hear only the soothing lapping of waves. The sun’s rays reflected on the turquoise Mediterranean, and sprawling in front of us were endless miles of clean, white, sandy beach.
We looked at each other and smiled, knowing we’d found our own slice of paradise.
