Cuitadella

Woke up early this morning, but it was raining, so went back to sleep! In fact, it had been raining, and thundering, and lightning all night. Eventually after a couple of good cups of coffee, and a look at the Jeremy Kyle show (I've never seen it before- what a eye opener!), the sun came out, so we decide to go to Cuitadella. It's the second biggest town in Menorca, and very different to Mahon, it has a Moorish feel to it, illustrated beautifully by the Town Hall in one of the squares





We spent a couple of hours wandering round narrow streets, of course, all shops were shut, but that wasn't a bad thing.





We walked through squares, passed markets, and saw orange trees loaded with fruit. The town was much busier than Mahon, and seemed much more lived in. Many more tourists as well, because it's full of lovely architecture, like a smaller version of Barcelona. We went for a walk along the harbour, past the moored yachts, and found somewhere to have lunch.





Unfortunately, we thought we could just have a salad but when we were settled, discovered that they were only serving the "menu del dia", so we were forced to have a three course meal. Wasn't too much of a problem, but then a bottle of wine appeared as apparently each menu included half a bottle of wine each. Stuart was driving, so it was down to me. I put up a good effort, but did in fact leave about half a glass..... The meal was lovely, and my lemon sole was perfect.

After lunch we set off to drive back, but stopped off at the Naveta des Tudons, a prehistoric burial monument, just by the main road.

Got back in time to have a play with the newly installed wireless network, a nap, and then to eat at Smithy's bar up the road on the last night before he closed for then winter. Back in time to see Terry Wogan hosting Buzzcocks.