Tue 5th Feb
The Refugi was excellent last night, great food, with wine! and a good conversation with a young Belgian couple.
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| The main beam for the press |
The refugio has a restored olive press behind it that is fascinating, there are only 28 left now, none of them working, out of the hundreds that must have been on every little farm.
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| Clearing the terraces |
Walked down from the village where there were a number of people clearing and starting to cultivate some old olive terraces, the current shortage of olive oil must be encouraging someone.
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| Sea view |
A good walk along old terraces, again high above the sea in the morning sunshine, it must have rained sometimes last night as everything was quite wet.
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| Everywhere is terraced |
I realised, after a while, that I was going to get to Soller, where I had a room booked, much too early.
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| Entrance to Refugi de Muletta |
So I took the path out to the Refugi de Muletta and back, for a cup of coffee. A nice walk down and back up through the pine woods above Port de Soller. An extra hours walking!
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| Wonderful old olive trees |
The path loops round above Soller before descending through groves of citrus fruits.
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| Soller, surrounded by mountains |
Soller is a big town surrounded by mountains, the main access is through a long road tunnel to Palma.
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| Tourist shopping street |
Soller is full of shops and quite a number of tourists, it must be heaving in the summer. I wasted some time wandering the streets looking in the overpriced 'art' shops before finding a suitable non tourist bar to partake of a beer.
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| View from my balcony |
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