Port de Soller to Cala de Deia

Port de Soller to Cala de Deia

As the mountains still had low cloud hanging around, our walk today was going to go along the coast to Cala de Deia. We are following a route from the guide book, but with a few changes to the route.
From the hotel we turned left and headed up the winding road to the light house at Cap Gros. Here you will also find a Refuge hut used mainly by the trekkers doing the GR221. The light house had a board up about its history and life of the people who worked there plus the normal info about when in the heat of the moment it took hours to get a replacement light.

From the lighthouse we took the GR221 path which was very rough and muddy. This took us to a better track and then onto the main road. This was one change to the route we took, most would follow the book but we took the path down to the coast, doing it in reverse. First it was road/track passing some nice homes on the way down. Some looked like second or holiday homes. At the bottom we missed the path, but this was down to a very faint red dot we missed. The path now followed the coast towards Cala de Deia. It was not easy to follow as there were many false paths leading off and fallen trees in the way. We had to climb over or go under them and it was at times back breaking but it was a great path to walk with great views. In the end we came round the headland to see Cala de Deia below us, a small cove with two cafes, one on the beach and one built on the rocks.

We headed for the cafe built on the rocks, where we had a beer.   The menu for the food is more full meals then snack food. While we were there we had a camera crew filming collection of small gold boxes, which look like for an advert. So strange place to do an advert, and four crew with walkie talkies and ear pieces. Bit over the top and then another two guys coming running in with another camera crew in hot pursuit. It turns out it was some TV treasure hunt show and the boxes are musical boxes with clues. We watch for a while but move on when the camera men are stepping onto our table to get better shots and jumping around.

We head up the road in the direction of the village of Daia to take the GR221 path back to Soller. The path is a good track and well maintained and passes many orange and lemon groves. The route finding is a lot easier along the cobble paths.  We pass a very large building which we think was a bed and breakfast place, but it was a huge building. We stopped at the next hotel as the sign said beer and it was hot. This is where we changed the route again to get to Soller. We enjoyed the beer on the terrace looking across the valley. The hotel was once a monastery and the food looked good. So we followed the track down the valley and missed our turning as the sign was behind us. We did not go far wrong as we turned to far south. We retraced our steps to find the path back to Port de Soller