Spring is coming.

Mallorca at this time of the year is so different from the hectic Summer months.
Plenty of space and the roads are quiet.
Even the bl**dy cyclists aren't here in force yet!

Days are sunny and the night are cool.
I've even seen people in the sea!
But it's a a great time of the year, because in the sun and out of any wind, the island is virtually as hot as June or September.

Easter is early this year, Semana Santa as it's called here.
The hotels and bars are waking up now.
Those that closed during the winter are being prepared for the busy months ahead.
A lick of paint, and the job that seems to be a part of Mallorca life...the maids sweeping.
All with a cheery Buenas Dias to anyone passing.
All in all, it's a great time to discover the real island.

Singer Annie Lennox said that Mallorca has been ruined by motorways which slice through once unspoiled countryside.
Ruined?
I disagree.

What has happened is that the traffic has now been moved away from once sleepy villages which had become host to thousands of cars and lorries driving through each day.
Village life had changed, and changed for the worse, as tranquility had given way to modern transport.

But now these same villages are going back to sleep, slumbering in the hot sun and the quiet of the countryside, as the thunder of the motorist has been taken away to where it belongs.
To me the original Mallorca is fighting its way back after decades of too much traffic.