CHAPTER 9
The rest of the holiday seemed to fly by. During the day they went site seeing. The island was covered in talayots – megalithic rock mounds that date back to the second millennium BC. The children climbed the taulas – huge T-shaped stone slabs and played inside the navetas, stone slab constructions which look like inverted loaf tins.
They visited the early morning fish market at the Plaza Espana in Mahon reached from a twisting flight of steps from the quay. They shopped in the municipal market housed in the cloisters of the Carmelite church behind the Plaza Carmen, and they visited the ice cream factory in Alayor.
During the evenings the children disappeared off to the hotel while Jill and Grant played cards on their patio. Grant saw Sara around the hotel, often on the space
