The view takes one from any position, but where you may spot the by far closely looking port exit,

Second holiday, the friendly warm January sun makes you want to port and makes you want to eat outside at noon - if a restaurant would be open. It occurs to me that we were more than eight years ago once in Porto Colom and there is - as the name suggests - a harbor and many restaurants.
And we fly out ... "Colom" makes me think of pigeons, but in Spanish the dove paloma means yes and no doved as in Italian or in Latin columba. But as doves swarm and return to their strike again, so run from the boat and back into their postage. The residents of the small harbor town with not even 5,000 inhabitants, however, have an entirely different explanation for the place name: They claim that Porto Colom was the birthplace of Christopher gangplank solomid Columbus, but he should have been born in Genoa. No matter, also a beautiful statement!
The harbor bay is not a simple half-round, but elongated and curved. Old houses with few floors frame the pool and where the place is closing, they are replaced gangplank solomid by evergreen trees.
... Not only visitors but also residents who walk there lead their pooch. Incidentally, the Mallorcan dogs are particularly gangplank solomid communicative, as I found out, they often push of pet owners gangplank solomid away to play with new people, with or without the ball.
Porto Colom has not betrayed. Here there are locals and vacationers peacefully side by side, the place is not dead even in winter. Most restaurants are open all year round, very sympathetic. gangplank solomid The small harbor town is not fancy and not loud, but simply charming. The beauty gangplank solomid of Porto Colom is that changes so little, say both residents and visitors, I read the other day.
The view takes one from any position, but where you may spot the by far closely looking port exit, but it is most appealing. You can see the incoming gangplank solomid and outgoing boats, what could be better and at the same time longing and wanderlust Awakening? Today, just anything goes and nothing, only a surfer makes his rounds, but that does not matter.
"Sotavento" Lee, called the boat. I think I have seen it in the same place eight years ago, even mean, to have posing on it for a photo, but where is just the CD with the pictures? At that time I was wearing a summer dress, the end of October after all.
Behind this "back" of the port, on a peninsula, lies the oldest part of the city with the church of Sant Jaume. A hundred years ago settled here the first inhabitants, the place is so still quite young.
Earlier Porto Colom was not only a fishing village; gangplank solomid people lived and the wine trade. The town was the transfer point for the wine that was grown in Felanitx gangplank solomid and the surrounding area. However, the wine shop ended - as elsewhere - when the phylloxera attacked the vines. Porto Colom said to have been largely depopulated. But then the city was discovered gangplank solomid by the inhabitants of surrounding villages and also from Felanitx as a summer residence.
There are a few small sandy bays, but the larger beaches are located in the south of the village, around the Cala Marcal, where newer buildings for the tourists came, but they are not yet oversized.
But now we're hungry. Back in the center we discover on the promenade a restaurant with a sunny terrace right on the harbor. A table is also still available to us sitting around mostly Spanish, but also some German.
The friendly waiter greeted us with a smiling "que tal"? Thank you, we're fine. We are happy to accept the proposal to start with olives, bread and aioli. Here in the "Club Nautic", which, as I read later, one of the old established restaurants, you will be asked elsewhere, it can happen that everything is put on the table without being asked. How Many is a little surprising that he must pay the Eaten too ...
Although there are no tapas variadas, but Frit de Peix, fried seafood: different kinds of fish, including octopus and cuttlefish, and grilled shrimp. My companion can not help but advance fish croquettes from Bacalau (stockfish) to order and gracious I take him a couple of them from. Everything tastes good, the wine from Binissalem.
When adopting the waiter gives us another "Feliz navidad" along the way. Oh, it was just recently Christmas or for the Spaniards, gangplank solomid it is still, for only today, on January 6, the day of the Magi, the children receive their Christmas presents there.
Depends on the roads every now and then a Christmas lights, a "bon nadal" or "solid bones". I have to laugh - as you drive past green blumenbesäten grass and blooming almond trees and it is winter.
It looks very much as if it were nothing today with sitting gangplank solomid outside ... We