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The evening saw us going back to try and catch another sunset at Sa Talaia d'Alberctutx. This time a nearly full moon rose over the bay. On the spit, seen most clearly on the 4th photograph from the end, is the villa used in the television adaptation of Le Careé's 'The Night Manager'

After our coffee in Pollença, Alan wanted to show me some of the places he had cycled to over the previous 3 weeks. As may have been expected, these all involved driving over the mountains. Our first port of call was the Santuari de Lluc, a monastery founded in the 13th century, now used as a school for a famous boys choir, Els Blauets. The route goes over the Serra de Tramuntana and arrives at the large car park for the monastery. At the edge of the car park were a number of college students amusing themselves with a skipping rope. Surprisingly the boys were doing ok at skipping but the girls were lousy. We walked around the monastery, visited the church and went to a cross perched at the top of the hill on which the santuari was built. We also took the path round the botanical garden, established in 1956 to exhibit Balearic plants. Here I encountered a large black beetle resting on a rock. From Lluc we set out for the coast acros...

The little town of Pollença lies next to Port de Pollença where we were staying, and Pollença is where we went for a coffee on the morning of my second day on the island. We visited the main square, the Plaça Major from where a flight of 365 stone steps leads up to a chapel on the top of a hill. We thought we should earn our coffee by walking to the top and down again. At the top is a viewpoint which had numbers of small bags that had been thrown down.Their owners shortly retrieved them. Teachers from local primary schools must think that is the best way of tiring out their pupils. As well as the children we were entertained by a guitarist playing Cavatina, endlessly. The way up the steps has some stone houses on one side with rather wonderful gardens. We eventually had our coffee and watched as the parties of kids ascended and descended the steps. On Good Friday evening a re-enactment of the crucifixion takes place at the top of the steps (using a marble Christ) and the body is c...