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Mallorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, has been enticing foreigners to its sunny shores since the 1950s. Many a visitor has come on vacation, fallen under its spell, and decided to relocate to this Mediterranean gem...
Mallorca, the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, has been enticing foreigners to its sunny shores since the 1950s. Many a visitor has come on vacation, fallen under its spell, and decided to relocate to this Mediterranean gem...
Jo Fulton was 18 the first time she visited Spain. She had gone to Mallorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands to work as an au pair for the summer, prior to starting university.
In the summer, I like to get up early and head out for a walk whilst the rest of the world slumbers on. It's blissfully quiet at that time of day and the mountain scenery is particularly spectacular in the soft light of the morning.
As I tapped away at my battered laptop that morning, sitting outside my beach hut, it came to me that I was living the dream. This was it—and I was doing it! I was living the freelance lifestyle. It was so perfect it was almost a cliché: I had just been for a long walk on the beach, followed by a breakfast of fresh fruit, yogurt,
I've always been fascinated by Spain, with its unhurried pace...warm people...and colorful history. So a year ago I spent several months traveling from the medieval villages of Girona in the northeast, down to the windswept beaches and emerging surf towns of the southwest.