A week sailing around Mahon, Menorca

Cala Galdana is an ideal destination for families or couples looking for a peaceful quiet resort with excellent amenities. The resort is located at the base of the Algendar Gorge that helps create a dramatic landscape, of high cliffs covered with aromatic pine trees with spectacular views.

Ciutadella is by far the most beautiful town and Port in Menorca Moorish influence can still be seen in the architecture. The little side streets are exquisite with the most amazing shops. There is a market on Fridays which is when we visited. There is a Port which is also beautiful and lots of restaurants.

It is surrounded by platforms, for the bathers, and cliffs crowned with bright whitewashed houses. Its landscape, consisting in spectacularly shaped stones of different colours, perfectly registers the island’s geological development.

Fornells is a former fisherman’s village that has become the main place for sail based water sports and specialist fish restaurants for the island. Centred around around the fishing harbour, it remains mostly residential. The village is located at the entrance to a huge enclosed natural bay whose protected waters make it perfect for all manner of sail based messing about.

Es Grau is on the coast, a little way north of Mahon and very easy to find. It is a small coastal village full of old whitewashed houses. The bay is shallow and provides very safe swimming for children.

Mahon is the capital of the island, and no charter will be complete without visiting this idyllic hotspot. Wander the streets and admire the Art Nouveau architecture around the cathedral and the magnificent views of the coast. The enormous port has drawn visitors and traders in for centuries. As a result, Mahon feels more open to the world than Ciutadella.