Palma de Mallorca day 2 (3 May 2023)

We got up early and sat on the patio for a while before heading out to find Xurreria La Artesana as our research said it was the home to the best churros in the area. It was a lovely walk round from our air bnb as it was still relatively cool.

It was all locals, a good sign! It is next to Mercat Pere Garau so it was pretty buzzy and got even busier with people once they'd dropped their kids off at the nearby school.

We ordered our usual, churros with thick delicious chocolate for me and cola cao (instant hot chocolate) for K cos she is a baby. It was the thick porras style churros and we were delighted. They were delicious. However, I did drip some chocolate on my shirt so we had to go home afterwards so I could change. Classic Toerzy. 

Because we were going home it meant we could pick some things up for the house - juice, water, beer, jamon, crisps - just the essentials. 

Once I was changed we hopped on a bus into town and headed for the main market, Mercat de l’Olivar. It is massive and wonderful. We wandered around marveling at all the fresh produce before stopping at one of the in market cafes. We had coffee, fresh orange and a slice of bread with tomato slices on it at a coffee shop called Arabay. The coffee was banging and the orange juice and tomatoes were super fresh.

Our next stop was Museu Fundació Joan March a fantastic, and free, modern art museum in a beautiful building just down from the market. It was a really, really great museum but wasn't that busy weirdly.

Once we did culture we wandered about a bit before deciding to have a break at the beautiful Forn del Santo Cristo which is in one of the most beautiful buildings in the city - Can Forteza Rey.

I had a coffee and K had a granizado and we shared an ensaimada (the most famous type of pastry in Mallorca). Again a 10/10 stop. I'm def going to get another ensaimada today!

Next we went to the cathedral, it was insanely busy but we bought our tickets on the website and walked right in without waiting about. It was worth a look and there was a Gaudi addition but the ostentatious of the Catholic Church always ends up annoying me.

We decided to split lunch and have a few tapas before and after our next museum. The before was at Café la Lonja, we grabbed a seat in a lovely historic square and ordered a slice of tortilla, a tapa of meatballs and a sobrasada and honey panini. The panini turned out to be 2 tiny paninis which made sharing easy. Everything was delicious. 

After lunch part 1 we headed up to Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, spotting some cool street art en route. There was also some cool sculptures outside the museum. The guy at the museum asked us where we were from and when we said Scotland he gave us the discounted ticket price!

The museum was beautiful but there wasn't actually that much art and what was there wasn't really for me. However, the view from the roof were incredible and worth the ticket price alone, I would genuinely recommend going for the roof alone.

Lunch part 2 was at La Rosa Vermuteria & Colmado. Even though it was about 330pm it was still rammed but we snagged a space at the bar. We order patatas bravas, a steak croqueta (you only got 1 cos it was big), a slice of tortilla and a tomato salad. The tomato salad never arrived and it worked out well cos we were stuffed already. 

After lunch we headed back to the air bnb to chill until our dinner reservation which wasn't til 930 pm! Aka bedtime.

We were pleased to have time to enjoy our patio. We sat on the edge of the pool with our legs in the water but didn't get right, it was lovely. Even though we're in a massive city the main noise was the birds flying over.

Our dinner was at El Camino which has the longest bar in Palma. Everyone sits at the bar and you watch the food being made in front of you - dinner and a show!

We were a wee bit early for our reservation so grabbed a frosty beer at Alaska first as it was just round the corner.

El Camino is one of the most popular restaurants in the city so unsurprisingly it was rammed but the service was still attentive, we def didn't feel forgotten. 

We order a slice of pan tomate to start and sadly discovered that the people next to us had snagged the last stuffed courgette flower so we had to reconsider our choices. We had jamon croquetas, sobrasada with bread and ali oli, an incredible burrata, tomato and blood orange salad and pluma iberica for our mains and then shared a slice of chocolate tart for dessert. Everything was delicious. K's fave was the sobrasada (the ali oli was incredible) and mine was the salad. Bearing in mind it is one of *the* restaurants in town, our bill of about 100 euros felt pretty reasonable. 

After that we just headed home to bed having had a wonderful day.