This Charming ...

Charming. Not always a word that comes out sounding sincere, but I've got a place that fits the word, a place and the girls running it - and when I say girls, I do of course mean ladies or women. It's hard to know what the correct usage is as "girls" is quite acceptable here, as in "chicas". But so much for the apology for being non-PC. Where was I? Ah yes, charming. And more positive after yesterday's story of abandonment. Doubly positive as it's a place that has been given a really good makeover inside, and it looks great. On the pinewalk, Puerto Pollensa, the name - Los Pescadores. Angie runs it, with her sister. What really nice people, and I mean that most sincerely, friends (using my best Hughie Greene voice, which was not necessarily sincere, but is in this case).

A restaurant on the pinewalk. Boulevard may be colonising Puerto Pollensa with any number of tex-mex joints sprouting up all over the place, but on the pinewalk it is still possible to get restaurant charm. Pescadores was always a fairly decent place but it did need some work, and it has had it. Along with the cracking pizza place of Caryl, Rafa and Michele, Little (Italy) - though the Italy is not meant to be used - here are two places blessed by location on top of the beach and looking out over the bay, though today, the wind whipping in and cold, it was not really the day for the terrace.

And on Puerto Pollensa restaurants, a word about Sal i Oli, joint winner of best new restaurant of 2007. It is still Sal i Oli in essence but the name has changed to L'Almirant, which is the same as the original L'Almirant. Confusing I know. But the new L'Almirant is a Tapas and Beef Club, whereas the original L'Almirant was just tapas. There. Glad I've cleared that up.

Easter is here. Today is Holy Thursday, which is a bit of a gig in these parts: re-enactment of Last Suppers and various processions and the like. All part of the Semana Santa (Holy Week), which is in fact longer than a week. Though an irreligious sort, I shall be taking a slight rest over the Easter weekend, unless something really grabs me. So I apologise in advance if the normal daily dose is absent. Happy Bunnies.