My Favourite Shop

I'll be honest. I don't get the whole deal with shopping on holiday. Clearly it is a male-female thing. The WAGS and daughters wanna go shoppin'. The guys go to the bar. Lagerfeld or lager. Ne'er the twain do meet. Of course, sometimes needs must, like when you forget to pack your underpants or the luggage goes for its own fortnight vacation. Many years back at the time of Tito in the former Yugoslavia, a group of us went to this place in Croatia. Unfortunately the baggage handler who absconded with the suitcase took the one belonging to the guy who was a former basketball player with a by-now expanding girth line. 6 feet six in both directions. His greatest need was for some swimming trunks. Umag, that was the place. It had one clothes shop with no clothes, except - would you believe it - one outsize pair of swimming trunks. It was like Michael Palin coming across the bicycle repair shop in that old Python sketch. So, as I say, needs must on occasion.

But to come on holiday and shop. Fortunately for shops hereabouts, not everyone is either male or is disinterested, and - to be fair - there are some quite good shops in both Alcúdia and Pollensa. Clothes, perfumes, jewellery. All pretty much girlie stuff. The lads can wander off if they want though and find somewhere like Totymar in Puerto Alcúdia with its fishing and diving gear or, of course, go to the bar. Anyway, it so happens that I was in one of Puerto Pollensa's top perfumeries today - Stefanel. Not for shopping purposes I hasten to add. And so it gives me an excuse to post a photo of the shop (that was the reason for being there). Oddly though, there is something quite intoxicating about a perfume shop, though I do wonder do men ever actually buy the male perfumes and stuff for themselves? Whatever.

There are some favourite shops around. One that I have mentioned before is Llomgar in Alcúdia. Maybe it's the drills and those high-pressure water-jet things that will strip the paint off your car if you're not careful. But you can more or less buy anything there. Electrical goods, lights, garden furniture. Yea ok, one of them, one of them and one of them. Oh, and you deliver, too. Job's a good 'n. That's what I call shopping.


QUIZ
Yesterday - "She's The One", Robbie Williams. Today's title - who had an album with this title except that it was "our" and not "my"? (Have we had this before? Must keep a record, seems familiar.)

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