Vamos a la playa! My holidays in Menorca, Balearic islands, Spain

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When my son asked me to do the summer holidays in a blue sea, where you can watch with the transparent mask the fish and go in a different beach every day, "I started thinking about where we could go, without going too far and without spending a fortune.
Sardinia? Already. Corsica? Pure. Greece? After my project was the Crete Cyclades but we had little time to do more of the islands as I would have liked, so we postponed it to next summer. So what was left? Spain. But I would not go along the coast crowded and full of choices-mostridicemento, so we addressed to the Balearic Islands: Formentera in August is too crowded, Majorca know it, we just have to Menorca. Start your research online and I will submit an island rich in nature, beaches nestled between high cliffs, and declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve ... AWARDED!
Together with our fellow travelers have booked the car for 10 days at our disposal, residence in a cottage by the site www.homeaway.it and the flight line then a Barcelona Bologna flights from Barcelona to Menorca.
We were in the far west in the area around the island Ciutadella, and the car we visited different beaches every day.
Of course, in August the crowd can not be avoided entirely, but enough to get you on the most popular beaches, especially because when the parking lots are full, the access road is closed so no longer able to arrive until late afternoon.
There are some beaches that I think are a bit 'undervalued and others are enhanced but not so exciting, but of course it is a matter of taste!
The beaches are close to residential areas, in August you can also avoid or at least can be exploited for a break or lunch, but of course are full of bars and places to refuel. Among these Castel de Arenal and Cala Galdana north to south, which I assume are much more attractive in less busy periods.
The beautiful beaches of Cala Macarella and Macarelleta, Cala Mitjana and Cala en Turqueta, you absolutely have to see by un'alzataccia before a sea of people pour into the bay, supporting the prorpio cloth, usually on top of yours! Also in this area however, there is a beach "Son Saura" not to be confused with another that is in the north, the greater part of the previous and "snubbed" by tourists traveling by car. The beach is quite large and has only one drawback: the algae, which are mainly located on the beach and form a mushy carpet a bit 'slippery and sometimes not so fragrant. But this is only the first part of the beach and if you want to walk to the bottom of the creek, you will find a beach more free and wonderful water. Son Saura is reached by boats that go around the South West coast and then just stand in the crowd for about half an hour of rest and then just left the boat, we meet again in control of the beach.
On a day later we visited the historic city of Mahon, the village of Binibeca Vell beautiful to take pictures to put on your Windows desktop, a bathroom in Cala en Porter and then ... do not miss the Cova d'en Xeroy. At about 19 bar-disco opens for the show of the sunset and you just have to relax with a drink at a table overlooking the sea and ambient music in the background, waiting for the sun becomes orange, then red and then disappear into the sea.
The creeks that are in the residential area around Ciutadella, are really small but nice, like Cala en Forcat, along the creek where there are walls covered on foot, with steps at various points to get in the water.
To the north, the landscape is wild, but the beaches are white and reddish-clear sea. The beaches we liked the most were those of Cap Cavalry where we had to be covered with red clay, and the beach of Cala Pregonda. The walk of 20-25 minutes is needed to reach it through a lunar landscape o. .. Mars, we made it to the 17.00, so as not to cook them and then we particularly enjoyed the peace and wonder of Cala Pregonda until sunset, in a light made all the more red the color of the rocks that surround it.
The beach of Son Bou however, in the south, is over 2 km long and despite the period, and residential areas that are behind it, is not at all crowded. Here we spent our last day as best we could, including walking in the shallow waters and relaxing baths and transparent between the blue sea and sky, trying to impress well in mind the colors and fragrances, to remember in the gray autumn days.
Ilaria