Can Guillo
Trip Start
Mar 17, 2010
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5
Trip End
Mar 30, 2010
Pollença, Balearic Islands, Spain
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
the driveway to can quillo is a super tiny little asphalt lane that winds up a hill (you can see the ocean from it but it took me a few days to notice it) past a large pen for sheep, an orchard, a goat pen, and then stops at a small horse who goes wild for sugar cubes and apple cores. the main building is a simple rectangular stone building with a clay tile roof. checking in was rather relaxed. "hey. hello. welcome. here's your room. thanks. see you." our room was on the top floor of the building with a balcony/patio that looked over the farms and the mountains. it was ridiculous and pictures will have a hard time recreating the sense of the view. our room was mostly bare stone walls with expose wooden rafters and antique furniture. our room was actually part of a two room apartment type lodging so it was attached to a full kitchen and living room. there are three of these suites so can guillo would make for a very awesome family reunion. one of the coolest things to me about the room was the fact that our room key was a skeleton key.
outside you find patios, benches, swings, a pool, a playground, two playful old dogs, a hundred cats, a chicken pen (with peacocks), roosters wandering around in the grass, and lots of flora to look at: cacti, flowers, trees, etc. ashley and i spent a good amount of time each day just wandering around the farm, usually after breakfast.
breakfast was an exciting part of each morning. my alarm was set to 8:30 so we could get down to the breakfast room first. there was always a spread of baguettes, homemade jams and butter, coffee, tea, orange juice, and cereal. then the two women working would bring out a main dish, which usually involved sausage, ham, eggs, bread and olives. most of what you eat comes from the farm and is really really good.
the family that runs the place is really nice and inviting even if they did think we were german at first. they were all very impressed with ashley's ability to speak spanish. she would often translate funny things that the grandmother would say to germans. but she soon learn that ashley speaks spanish and said her friend, "we better be careful around this one. she understands us."
i think the biggest thing that sets can guillo apart from most places i've stayed at was that the traffic you encounter while driving to the hotel is the herd of sheep moving from one pasture to another. I've never needed to honk to get sheep to move off the driveway of a hotel before. I would recommend this place to everybody. it is an awesome place to stay.
