To market, to market...and old town Alcudia

We visited the market today in Sineu. We took a taxi over to save our legs for tomorrow’s mega ride to Sa Calobra. The market is purported to be the longest continuous running market in the world, since it started in 1306.. Every Wednesday locals have brought their cheese, hams, livestock, and just about everything else to the center of the city of Sineu to be sold or traded. And now, many non-locals have also started to populate every nook and cranny of the Sineu centrum selling items like farm implements and shawls from Kashmir (Pashmina). You could taste your way through the market, with bits of cheese and cured meats offered as samples. Mallorcan linens, jewelry, pottery, and hand crafted knives were common. And the fruits, olives, onions and peppers seemed to be everywhere.

After a lunch our taxi returned us to the hotel and we hopped on a bus to go to old town Alcudia. We saw this briefly yesterday, but had more time to explore without our bicycles. We walked around the city inside the 14th century wall, and did part of the walk on the ramparts on top of the wall. During lunch, we snacked on tapas and coffee. The tapas snacks included goat cheese with blueberries, octopus, anchovies and olives, jamon (thinly sliced Spanish ham similar to prosciutto) on bread with olive oil. A quick bus ride home and another great dinner at Ivory Playa and we are ready for bed and a significant ride tomorrow.

Stats for today: 2 taxi rides and 2 bus rides