Majorca vacation - Days 3 and 4

Ok back to our vacation story...

On day 3 we got up fairly early again - crazy to do that while on vacay right?... - but we wanted to get going before it got super hot.

We headed to the nearby town of Alcudia as that day was a big street market day.

We walked around the old town...

We also climbed the crumbling walls of the oldest part of Alcudia and walked around the fortification and looked out the shooting holes (where town guards would shoot from if the town was being invaded).

We wandered around the market and had fun checking out the stands with all the different knick knacks for sale. A lot of the stands were packed with items made in Morocco which I guess is not far from there.

Finally it was time for Katherine to eat so we stopped in one of the little local tapas places. Check out this feast we got served. Not like the tiny tapas portions you get in the US!

We were hoping to see an equestrian show called Passion Cavalli but when we came to the arena where it was being held it turned out there was absolutely no covered seating and since the show was right in the middle of the day when the sun is the strongest, it was just not safe to do with little Katherine. But we saw some pretty horses and a lady in a lovely traditional dress inviting people to attend. Makes you wonder though - how do the poor horses handle performing in such opressive heat??

After we had enough of Alcudia we went back to the hotel for a little cool down and a siesta.

Later on, CJ went back to town to get a rental car for us again. We were planning to do a similar thing we did when we arrived and use the rental to see another part of the island and then return it at the airport the next morning.

We used the car to drive across the island towards the town of Porto Cristo to see super old and super cool caves with amazing rock formations (stalactites and stalagmites). No flash photography is allowed there so the quality of the pictures is iffy. When you get to the caves area the first thing you do is watch a movie about Jules Verne and how odd underground places like this inspired him and other people's imagination and then the guided tour starts. The link between the caves and Verne still seems kind of unclear to me but who cares. It was really cool down there and Katherine took a little nap as the caves were pretty dark.

Then we drove back to the hotel and spent the evening chillaxing on our cool porch.

And the next morning it was time to take the last dip in the pool, pack and head to the airport.

It was a really cool little vacation. I would highly recommend Majorca to anyone who  is coming to Europe.