Thursday 25 May 2023

To the coast and back home

In hindsight, it would have been better to take the bus from Pollenca, where we had been staying (at Refuge Pont Roma - AKA Roaman Bridge), to the Port, but it's easy to think that afterwards!


The town of Pollenca is very nice, but there is a 5km highway between town and port, along which, the GR221 walks. Not the most inspiring finish to a week of great trekking. We had planned to walk up and over to the deserted cove of Cala.... to the north of the port, but the tired trekkers opted instead to go straight to the town beach instead. There were a few interesting weeds and flowers on the trek there to distract from the road at times!


It was somewhat of a culture shock being back in the bustle of a busy tourist town again!


It was rather windy down at the beach, but only a few could resist a final dip in the sea to celebrate the end of our journey!


We had plenty of time in the afternoon, to stroll the marina after a big team feed at an outside restaurant.


A bus to Palma, then another to the airport had us re-packed and checked in in good time for the night flight. I 'pulled rank' on the plane so that I could have a window seat to try and get a little bit of sleep before driving the minibus back to Wales! I managed about 30mins, which was helpful and made the drive a bit easier! It was almost 1am by the time we got to the terminal at Liverpool and the sun was putting a soft glow on the horizon, when several hours later at 03:38 I pulled up at The Cottage, having returned the group to their homes! I just made it up the stairs before falling instantly asleep... A long day!...



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