Mahon Menorca

Today we arrived in Mahon, Menorca. It was sunny and in the low 80's. Menorca is one of the five Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain in the western Mediterranean. It is a small island – 30 miles by 14 miles wide but boasts one of the best natural harbors in the Mediterranean. Because our ship is one of the smaller cruise ships we were able to dock right across from the steps that lead up to the capital city of Mahon. The English controlled the island for most of the 1800’s and there is still a lot of British influence in the architecture of this beautiful island. It was pretty easy to walk around the town. We visited the local fish market and a couple of churches. We were planning on taking a bus to one of the many beaches however we found out that some of the bus routes did not have very frequent schedules and even though Menorca is beautiful, we did not want to risk missing the ship. We took a taxi to Punta Prima, one of the closer beaches. With the bad weather we had earlier in the trip, we had not had to opportunity to go to a beach. Menorca is a popular vacation spot for many visitors from UK and Germany and most of the people at the beach we went to appeared to be renting some of the summer houses nearby. Tomorrow we will be in Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands and more sunshine is predicted.