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01 August 2025

Four Great Day Trips from Palma de Mallorca

When I planned my recent trip to Mallorca, I decided to stay in Palma and explore other parts of Mallorca by taking day trips. During my stay, I visited four of Mallorca's most beautiful destinations by public transport and small-group tour. Warning: this post contains beautiful beaches (platjas), stunning coves (calas), charming mountain towns and much more!

29 July 2025

What's in My Bag: Palma City Break (Personal Item Only)

My Osprey Daylite Expandable 26+6 Travel Pack had its second foreign excursion this month when I took it on a five-day trip to Palma de Mallorca in Spain. Once again, I was impressed with how much I could pack in and how comfortable it was to carry. Read on to discover how the backpack worked as a personal item on a BA flight and what I packed.

26 July 2025

Nine Specialty Coffee Shops To Visit in Palma de Mallorca

When I wasn't visiting Palma de Mallorca's cathedrals, castles and coves, I made time to explore the city's burgeoning specialty coffee scene. Mallorca has several specialty coffee roasteries, as well as many other cafes serving coffee from top roasters from mainland Spain and beyond. The brunch offering is impressive too. Read on to find out my favourite coffee discoveries in Palma.

23 July 2025

Five Days in Palma de Mallorca: Cathedrals, Culture and Coves

With 300 sunny days per year, a beautiful old town, great food and fabulous beaches, Palma de Mallorca is the perfect destination for a European city break. I spent five days there in July — my first visit to the Balearic Islands. In this guide, I'm sharing my suggestions for the best things to see and do in Palma and beyond, as well as dining and hotel recommendations and tips for making the most of your time.

06 December 2019

A Long Weekend in Seville: Bex's Guide

For the past two years, my mum and I have taken a short European city break together — Budapest last year and Prague the year before. This year, we flew south to Seville, Spain's fourth-largest city and the capital of Andalucía. Although I've been to Spain a number of times, my visits had centred around Barcelona and Bilbao, so it was great to finally go to the south of the country.

04 December 2019

A Specialty Coffee Tour of Seville

At the end of November, I spent a long weekend in sunny Seville with my mum, my first time in the capital of Andalucía. We had three full days in the city, which gave me enough time to visit a few of the specialty coffee shops on my list — without inflicting too much coffee on my mum, who doesn't like coffee (or even the smell of it).

11 February 2017

The Barcelona Caffeine Chronicles: Nomad Coffee

The first few months of 2017 were always going to be a busy travel period for me, with two short European trips and a longer US work trip scheduled. Then two more brief European work trips materialised, to Cologne at the end of January and Barcelona earlier this week for a hectic one-night stay.