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When the weather in Finland gets intolerable in the autumn, this year we plan to escape to the Balearic Islands!
At our last trip to Mallorca in 1995 we noticed that the island had had a "facelift" since the time of it’s popularity as a common charter destination. Today the Balearic islands are also popular among individual tourists looking for quality and peaceful environments.
The weather conditions should be still  favourable in November and the flight times from Scandinavia within my tolerance. See map

See map online 

 Travel route:

Flight SAS Helsinki-Copenhagen-Palma
One week in Mallorca

Inger behind the wheel..... I behind the camera
2nd week in Ibiza 
Flight Iberia Palma-Elvissa-Palma,Fokker 50		 See 

See 
Both islands we visited were right in their off-season with just a few tourists.Some restaurants were closed for the season and beaches deserted.
Still we enjoyed this instead of the crowds in the Canary Islands.Weather was reasonably good with sunshine most of the days and temperatures a little above +20°C in daytime. As a matter of fact there is not so many places to chose in the Mediterranean area if you insist of travelling abroad in November when the weather is as it’s worst in Finland.
Despite the fact that I recently had suffered from a brain stroke we went on the trip that had been planned months ago. My right arm and hand was paralysed and disabled and I had some difficulties using fork an knife when eating and could not, of course, drive a car with manual gear. To my luck my wife Inger is an experienced driver so she was driving all together close to 1000km during two weeks while I sat in the co-driver seat with the map in my lap.
My big problem was how to use the camera with one hand! I solved it my holding the camera upside down with the left hand and pressing the exposure button with my thumb. It was not an ideal way to snap and in some pictures there might be some unsharpness due this. But I got something for this website anyway.