Menorca

Last Summer I went to Menorca, a fantastic island on the Mediterranean Sea, near the coast of Valencia.

Although it is very small, only a few kilometers wide, it has a lot of beaches with little fish of different colours swimming next to you. It also has “wild” beaches called “calas” that are as they were originally because no road passes near them and the machines can’t get there so there is a lot of seaweed and stones and there are some nature reserves in the sea that have a lot of salt and without swimming you float.

Also, it has two important cities; Mahón and Ciudadela, each one at different ends of the island (90 km). They are both very beautiful with all their houses painted white and a lot of smells of flowers around the city. In Mahón the “mahonesa” and the “ajonesa” two important sauces in Spain that got their name from the name of the city. There are some important monuments from the ancient times on the island, like some buildings from Greek and Carthaginian times and some that were very special from before the Greek ones, called “Navetas” that were common funerary buildings for important people or warriors killed in battle.

We entered one and, even though the mummies weren't there, we could imagine how the bodies were organized and deposited there. Their meaning was very important for the island because the ones who built and used them thought that they were like bridges that connected the Earth with the Universe that's why the buildings had a hole pointing to the sky. This gave light to the area in which the most important tombs where situated.

The inhabitants of the area had a very peculiar way of life because only few had cars because the distances on the island were so short that they didn't need a car to go where they want and they are so relaxed, which surprised me a lot.