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...and then it's time for a well deserved vacation! Haven't been around much lately. Much to do at work, and even more at home (kid needs attention! :)). On Friday I'm taking the family to a 5 star spa hotel on Mallorca (Sa Coma). We'll be staying for a week. I will turn off the phone, possibly even leave it at home. We've had a look at what Mallorca has to offer on the net, and we'll be bringing a travel guide. Too much to see and do, and too little time to spare. Does anybody have any "you have to see this!" suggestions for Mallorca?
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...and then it's time for a well deserved vacation! Haven't been around much lately. Much to do at work, and even more at home (kid needs attention! :)). On Friday I'm taking the family to a 5 star spa hotel on Mallorca (Sa Coma). We'll be staying for a week. I will turn off the phone, possibly even leave it at home. We've had a look at what Mallorca has to offer on the net, and we'll be bringing a travel guide. Too much to see and do, and too little time to spare. Does anybody have any "you have to see this!" suggestions for Mallorca?
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Is "Mallorca" the same place I know as "Majorca?" In any case, I haven't visited either so I can't advise you. But I do wish you an excellent vacation; I'm enjoying mine immensely. Yesterday I helped to nurse a puppy suffering from Parvo back to health while building a fence to keep her isolated from other animals. Today I pulled weeds in my yard until my back nearly broke, and dug up a plant that I don't want in my yard but my neighbor does. Digging around Fountain Grass is a lot like wrestling razor blades, and I have a thousand tiny cuts on my arms to prove it. I'm having a ball, and I hope you enjoy your break as much... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Is "Mallorca" the same place I know as "Majorca?" In any case, I haven't visited either so I can't advise you. But I do wish you an excellent vacation; I'm enjoying mine immensely. Yesterday I helped to nurse a puppy suffering from Parvo back to health while building a fence to keep her isolated from other animals. Today I pulled weeds in my yard until my back nearly broke, and dug up a plant that I don't want in my yard but my neighbor does. Digging around Fountain Grass is a lot like wrestling razor blades, and I have a thousand tiny cuts on my arms to prove it. I'm having a ball, and I hope you enjoy your break as much... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger, the Balearic Islands consist of Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza. Ibiza is the Teenage Hell of Nightclubs, Drunken Sex and Drugs. Majorca is more family orientated, but still with clubs and mad teenagers, but it has many other attractions like Shows, Carting, water sports etc. Menorca is the quietest one where old people go to die. Full of cotton headed women and men who wear pork pie hats. See Here[^]
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I don't think Mallorca HAS any "you have to see this" suggestions (except for the beach and the hotel bar) :-D
All the party people are on Ibiza these days! :-D
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You have a kid? Congrats! :) How old is he/she? The only time I've been out of India is summer of 2008 - 2 months in London, on work. Enjoy the vacation!
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Alice turned 3.5 months old last Friday. :)
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Is "Mallorca" the same place I know as "Majorca?" In any case, I haven't visited either so I can't advise you. But I do wish you an excellent vacation; I'm enjoying mine immensely. Yesterday I helped to nurse a puppy suffering from Parvo back to health while building a fence to keep her isolated from other animals. Today I pulled weeds in my yard until my back nearly broke, and dug up a plant that I don't want in my yard but my neighbor does. Digging around Fountain Grass is a lot like wrestling razor blades, and I have a thousand tiny cuts on my arms to prove it. I'm having a ball, and I hope you enjoy your break as much... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Majorca is the "bastardization" of Mallorca. Mainly for Brits and Germans so they will know how to pronounce it. :-D I am determined to enjoy the break! :)
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Majorca is the "bastardization" of Mallorca. Mainly for Brits and Germans so they will know how to pronounce it. :-D I am determined to enjoy the break! :)
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Sorry to correct you on this one. The Spanish spell it Mallorca, but pronounce it with the Catalan LL. That is "My Orca". The British and Germans refer to it's original Latin spelling Majorca (meaning the Major Isle) but the English pronounce it in the latinate way, "Me Orca". The Germans pronounce using the typical non sounded J. Thus "Ma Orca" There is an English tendancy to say MA JORCA, sounding the J, but this is oft done for effect, deliberately for humour.
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The train ride to, oh, what the hells it called, Puerto or some such on the north coast is supposed to be good. Apart from that its typical stuff. Beaches, restaurants, sailing, swimming.
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Sorry to correct you on this one. The Spanish spell it Mallorca, but pronounce it with the Catalan LL. That is "My Orca". The British and Germans refer to it's original Latin spelling Majorca (meaning the Major Isle) but the English pronounce it in the latinate way, "Me Orca". The Germans pronounce using the typical non sounded J. Thus "Ma Orca" There is an English tendancy to say MA JORCA, sounding the J, but this is oft done for effect, deliberately for humour.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
to it's original Latin spelling
Aha. I always figured it was zee Germans that had begun brutalizing the name, and then the Brits caught on. I have only seen the Majorca spelling on English and German sites... I have actually heard Brits pronounce it with a sounding J (Ma-D-jorca). I'm pretty Nazi (don't take me literally! :P) when it comes to names. Names aren't universal, and shouldn't be translated. They should be pronounced in the language they belong to. You're such a cunning linguist Dalek! ;)
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Yeah, I've seen it being mentioned a couple of times. Will probably ride it!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
to it's original Latin spelling
Aha. I always figured it was zee Germans that had begun brutalizing the name, and then the Brits caught on. I have only seen the Majorca spelling on English and German sites... I have actually heard Brits pronounce it with a sounding J (Ma-D-jorca). I'm pretty Nazi (don't take me literally! :P) when it comes to names. Names aren't universal, and shouldn't be translated. They should be pronounced in the language they belong to. You're such a cunning linguist Dalek! ;)
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Which country are you from?
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Which country are you from?
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Sweden, a stone's throw due east from England...
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Which country are you from?
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He's a fellow Swede, so he wimped out by not saying how people here pronounce it... (Don't ask me!) But I agree with Jörgen - it's up to the people who live in a country to name places, not us furrinners. Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww).
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Sweden, a stone's throw due east from England...
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I quote "Names aren't universal, and shouldn't be translated. They should be pronounced in the language they belong to." So Sweden is how you pronounce it? All languages have their idiomatic names for foreign places. Etat Unis for example.
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Majorca is the "bastardization" of Mallorca. Mainly for Brits and Germans so they will know how to pronounce it. :-D I am determined to enjoy the break! :)
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I quote "Names aren't universal, and shouldn't be translated. They should be pronounced in the language they belong to." So Sweden is how you pronounce it? All languages have their idiomatic names for foreign places. Etat Unis for example.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
So Sweden is how you pronounce it?
Well, you got me there. I'm not a purist, I'm a pragmatist. If I wrote "Sverige", chances are that most people won't know what I'm talking about.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Etat Unis for example
I think that's more of an example of French stubbornness to accept anything other than French, than a good example of idiomatic names. After all, wasn't it the French that attempted to make programming languages in France to only allow French keywords? :~
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In German, it's "Malle" anyway (with german, not spanish "ll").
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| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.The slang for Mallorca in Swedish is "Mallis" (Swedish, not Spanish "ll"). I really don't like the use of that name though, because it sounds quite derogative in my ears.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
So Sweden is how you pronounce it?
Well, you got me there. I'm not a purist, I'm a pragmatist. If I wrote "Sverige", chances are that most people won't know what I'm talking about.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Etat Unis for example
I think that's more of an example of French stubbornness to accept anything other than French, than a good example of idiomatic names. After all, wasn't it the French that attempted to make programming languages in France to only allow French keywords? :~
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I saw you walk right into his trap. But I'm glad you did because I stand corrected. I was expecting you to reply with "Svenska", but now I learnt it's the name for the Swedish language. :-O
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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...and then it's time for a well deserved vacation! Haven't been around much lately. Much to do at work, and even more at home (kid needs attention! :)). On Friday I'm taking the family to a 5 star spa hotel on Mallorca (Sa Coma). We'll be staying for a week. I will turn off the phone, possibly even leave it at home. We've had a look at what Mallorca has to offer on the net, and we'll be bringing a travel guide. Too much to see and do, and too little time to spare. Does anybody have any "you have to see this!" suggestions for Mallorca?
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I of course don't know what you typically enjoy seeing, but I liked: - Sa Calobra: The famous winding road to a touristy village close to a small, nice beach at the start/end of an impressive gorge. It is advisable to go there when the tourist buses are not there yet or have already left. I liked walking into the gorge; the beginning is very easy and you can just stop and go back as soon as it becomes too difficult. - Puig d'Inca: Easy to get on top by car, nice view[^] over the interior of the island - Cala Figuera: Beautiful village[^] on the SE coast. - Artà: Walk to the top of the hill[^] - Lluc Monastery[^] (climb the stairs to the top of the little hill, and the short 'botanical garden trail' behind the buildings is nice as well) I think Sa Calobra is a "must see", but you will probably have read about it in your travel guide; the others are not overwhelming, but just very nice places. I personally don't think Mallorca has so many absolute must-sees, but lots of small, nice places outside of the touristy areas. It all depends on how much time you are prepared to spend in a car, though. (I do assume you will have a car. Beware of the bikers, in particular in the mountains, who will recklessly block the road in groups and who appear to think driving in single file is only for cars, who they are intent on annoying as much as possible.) Regarding the spelling and pronunciation, I am German and didn't know there are people who write "Majorca" or not pronounce it "My Orca"... :doh:
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I of course don't know what you typically enjoy seeing, but I liked: - Sa Calobra: The famous winding road to a touristy village close to a small, nice beach at the start/end of an impressive gorge. It is advisable to go there when the tourist buses are not there yet or have already left. I liked walking into the gorge; the beginning is very easy and you can just stop and go back as soon as it becomes too difficult. - Puig d'Inca: Easy to get on top by car, nice view[^] over the interior of the island - Cala Figuera: Beautiful village[^] on the SE coast. - Artà: Walk to the top of the hill[^] - Lluc Monastery[^] (climb the stairs to the top of the little hill, and the short 'botanical garden trail' behind the buildings is nice as well) I think Sa Calobra is a "must see", but you will probably have read about it in your travel guide; the others are not overwhelming, but just very nice places. I personally don't think Mallorca has so many absolute must-sees, but lots of small, nice places outside of the touristy areas. It all depends on how much time you are prepared to spend in a car, though. (I do assume you will have a car. Beware of the bikers, in particular in the mountains, who will recklessly block the road in groups and who appear to think driving in single file is only for cars, who they are intent on annoying as much as possible.) Regarding the spelling and pronunciation, I am German and didn't know there are people who write "Majorca" or not pronounce it "My Orca"... :doh:
Thanks for the information! Hopefully we'll get to rent a car for a day or two, so that it'll be easier to get around. Being dependent on tourist buses is just hopeless... :|
Arnd H. wrote:
Regarding the spelling and pronunciation, I am German and didn't know there are people who write "Majorca" or not pronounce it "My Orca"...
Really? Maybe I was just visiting bad tourist sites then. I did quite a lot of research (customer reviews) before settling for a hotel, and the name "Majorca" was very common. It seems that Mallorca is a very popular with German tourists, because many of the customer review forums were in German. :)
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