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Pocket-sized, full-colour guide to Mallorca, ideal for an active short break Mallorca Sunflower Walk and Eat pocket guide is designed to add another dimension to your walking holiday in Mallorca. This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for walking in Mallorca with a gastronomical touch, using public transport. Even ‘non-walkers’ will appreciate the recommendations for Mallorca restaurants. Whether you fly out for a weekend, week or a fortnight, with this book you’ll have in your hand enough walks, excursions, restaurants and recipes to last throughout — so you can choose the most appealing. For each suggested restaurant there is a photograph of the décor and one of their dishes, plus sample menu, price guide, opening times and a recipe for one of their specialities. All recipes have been tried, tested and enjoyed by the authors so we think you’ll enjoy them too! In Mallorca Sunflower Walk and Eat guide you’ll find: * Detailed, easy-to-follow descriptions of fairly straightforward walks with large-scale maps * Excursions include 1 long trip by train, tram and boat and the other a train ride to the centre of the island * Recommended restaurants en route serving local dishes with sample menus included * Essential holiday information including planning your trip, logistics on arrival, local markets and specialities, glossary of local food terms and a restaurant mini-vocabulary * Advice on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances * Street map of Palma, information on markets, Portuguese wines and locally produced food – as well as free downloadable GPS tracks If you like to walk and you like to eat … you are going to love this book — the best guide to Sunflower Books have led the field for years with their brilliant Landscapes walking and car touring guides. Now they have raised their game even higher with a superb new Walk & Eat series. The Mallorca guide is a real delight — an inspiring collection of walks and excursions with recommended restaurants and hotels, as well as recipes for you to try out yourself. (Frank Barrett, Mail on Sunday)

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The go-to Mallorca travel guide for over 30 years. Strap on your boots and discover Mallorca on foot with the Sunflower Mallorca travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Mallorca guide is indispensable for hiking in Mallorca or seeing Mallorca by car. This was the first walking guide for Mallorca, the guide that won Sunflower the Sunday Times ‘Oscar’ for best travel guide — and eventually made the island one of the most popular walking areas in Europe. The author has lived on Mallorca for over 35 years and knows the island intimately. She has also been able to recheck most of the routes — as well as adding several new walks. This completely revised 9th edition, in a wider format with 50% more pages, features newly drawn maps and incorporates both the GR221 (‘Drystone Route’) and the GR222 (still a work in progress). These long-distance walks have been incorporated in the day walks. There are also 6 car tours with accompanying fold-out touring map, as well as plans of Palma and Soller, bus, train and boat timetables and panels of information on Mallorcan customs and features of the landscape. A free online update service informs users of any route-change information. Inside the Sunflower Mallorca guide book you’ll find: 90 long and short walks for all ages and abilities – each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walk Topographical walking maps – give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain Free downloadable gps tracks – for the techies Satnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 6 car tours and fold-out touring map – for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots – enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the way Timetables for public transport – ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holiday Online update service for the latest information Whether you decide to tour Mallorca by car or explore on foot we look forward to showing you around.

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