Palma – Day 2

Yesterday’s weather was variable – dull with intermittent rain overnight up until about 11.00am, followed by bright sunshine for six hours, then dull again until about 10.00pm when the heavens opened for a monsoon-like downpour. From 6.00pm the temperature began to get progressively chilly to the point where a pair of Barry’s employees who had joined us for a pint or two under the awning outside Sindy’s decided that yesterday was the last day they’d work in shorts this winter.

After breakfast I had been for a walkabout before joining Barry for a business meeting at the Club de Mar marina.

Returning afterwards to my hotel room I then read the newspapers for an hour before falling fast asleep on my bed until we teamed up again for a lunch in a pleasant restaurant on the main drag – I had fried squid Andalusian-style (with battered vegetables) as a starter which was excellent, and then a slightly less wonderful Ceasar salad for my main course in a token effort not to stuff myself.

Back in the hotel I busied myself on the internet until Barry called and suggested we walk around the castle grounds on the hill behind my hotel which would take an hour.

After our early evening drink we went to a nearby shushi restaurant for dinner and were joined there after our meal by a a super yacht captain pal of Barry’s and I ended by trudging up the hill to my hotel shortly before midnight, about an hour after Barry had excused himself and gone home.