{"id":11510,"date":"2019-06-26T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:17:58","slug":"daily_1642_-_mallorca_day_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/daily_1642_-_mallorca_day_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1642 – Mallorca, day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDay 1 of 7. Circular walk around Fornalutx via Binibassi and Biniaraix, 6 km.<\/p>\n

The heat wave is here and the heat is incredible. Stepping outside the hotel feels like stepping into an oven. But we’re here to walk and there isn’t much else to do in this little village, and spending all day in the hotel is not our idea of fun. So we walked, taking it slow and drinking lots of water.
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\nWalking soon became an exercise in seeking shade. Whenever the path zig-zagged, we crossed it to walk on the shadier side. If we wanted to stop a sip of water, the first step was to find a tree that was large and dense enough to provide proper shade. Standing still for even a minute in the burning heat was too much.<\/p>\n

Luckily there were quite a lot of trees, and the path was often bordered by high stone walls, which gave even better shade. This old washhouse was very pleasantly cool.
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\nThe orange and lemon trees were so full of fruit they looked like they were from a picture book. We found some lemons that had fallen into the street and ate one; it was delicious. It was strange to eat a warm lemon though: we do eat quite a lot of the fruits at home at room temperature, but I only use lemons for cooking and keep them in the fridge so in my head lemons are always cold.<\/p>\n

It was interesting to see the trees so well adapted to the dry climate: they all manage to keep their leaves and fruit, while the ground is dry dust and the grasses have all withered and died.
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\nWe’re staying (for two nights) at a lovely little hotel, Petit Hotel Fornalutx. It has a terrace and a garden, and even more importantly, a swimming pool.<\/p>\n

We spent most of the afternoon in and around the pool. Ingrid and Adrian swam and splashed; Eric and I sat in the shade and cooled our feet in the pool.
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\nNote to self: the restaurant Mol\u00f3n is very nice. Tapas and small dishes to be shared, but of a modern kind, which meant many more meat-free and vegetarian options than in all the traditional Mallorcan restaurants we passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 of 7. Circular walk around Fornalutx via Binibassi and Biniaraix, 6 km. The heat wave is here and the heat is incredible. Stepping outside the hotel feels like stepping into an oven. But we’re here to walk and there isn’t much else to do in this little village, and spending all day in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,775,15,773,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11569,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}