{"id":117,"date":"2012-06-13T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-06-13T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:56:13","slug":"pollenca-to-menorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Pollenca to Menorca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all our adventures are on the water, on Monday we motored from Formentor to Port Pollenca and found a berth at Club Nautico. After running a few errands, we jumped in a cab and went to the old town of Pollenca.<\/p>\n

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Pollenca Stairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We won\u2019t forget Pollenca, because of the enduring memory of climbing up and down, her 365 steps up to the Inglesia Calvari.\u00a0 We have been doing a lot of walking, mainly on flat avenues and laneways but this was steep.\u00a0 The views over the town were worth it and made the tapas we found on our descent, even more delicious.<\/p>\n

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Pollenca View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday we sailed to Menorca, we started out with little wind, but once we were out of the bay of Pollenca, the wind freshened to about 15 to 20 knots and the boys decided it was time to get out the asymmetrical spinnaker.\u00a0 Blue did a splendid job on the bow and Mercier clearly loved the run under sail.\u00a0 What looked like a boring four hours under motor turned into an enjoyable sail.<\/p>\n

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Under Spinnaker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Approaching the island, you immediately notice the difference in the coastline.\u00a0 Mallorca was sheers cliffs driving straight out of the water.\u00a0\u00a0 Menorca is like a flat plain above it. We arrived in Ciutdella, a beautiful old Medieval city, with influences from the Moors, Spanish and English.<\/p>\n

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Capitol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a beautiful bridge near the Port and wonderful streets for our endless strolls.<\/p>\n

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Bridge at Ciutadella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Time to get moving, so enjoy the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not all our adventures are on the water, on Monday we motored from Formentor to Port Pollenca and found a berth at Club Nautico. After running a few errands, we jumped in a cab and went to the old town of Pollenca. We won\u2019t forget Pollenca, because of the enduring memory of climbing up and … Continue reading Pollenca to Menorca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}