Nadines Travel Blog

This is the ancient wooden door that would have been lowered to protect the town of Alcudia. Our plan was to visit Alcudia and then make our way to Puerto de Alcudia but Alcudia stole our hearts and we stayed much longer than we had intended. I knew that it was a walled town but I was not prepared for how pretty this little walled town would be. We walked through the main towered gates and I stopped and stared at the beautifully inlaid marble roads of differing colours creating patterns throughout the whole walled town.  Dubrovnik is the only other walled town that I have seen with such exquisite roads. Beautiful marble-tiled roads make this town so jaw-dropping. We found a store that we liked and shopped in it. I am not much of a shopper now but I really liked this place. Darren bought some things for himself and I bought a natural stone beaded bracelet and we bought some stocking stuffers for Dax.  The store was very reasonable in price. We walked around the quaint streets a...

  These mountains to the left look fake, I know but they are real.  They are so picturesque and remind me of Switzerland.  The clouds were hanging around the tops of the Mountains the whole time that we were in Fornalutx.  This photo was taken in Soller, which is another town that does not get any credit for its own beauty.  Fornalutx is tucked up high in the valley that you see in this photo.  The drive up was breathtaking. I have never in my life seen such a beautiful village as Fornalutx.  The name of the village is not pretty but the scenery makes up for it.  Fornalutx citizens have worked hard to preserve their little village and they have received many awards and are named the best preserved town in Spain.  UNESCO awarded them in 2011.  Its rich history goes back over 1000 years as an Arab farmstead.  They were then conquered by the Catalan Empire and it started to take its current shape in the 1200s.  I would have chosen...