On a day’s walk around the city plus some other notes, we found
- Taxis are fair priced – they tell you up front if you ask, but buses work well with tap on, tap off card payment. And if you tap on for more than one person you get discounts up to I think 4 travelling together (and then tap out once).
- A free museum with rooms furnished in different eras and styles
- A modern art museum, also free with plenty enough Joan Miro
- The Olivar market for fresh everything as well as food
- The quiet Arab gardens, Banys Àrabs, not fancy, but a pleasant 30 minute breather
- ‘Free’ orange umbrella walking tours that you need to book in advance – you know how these work with an expected donation at the end
- A tour of the cathedral, interesting for it’s museum as much as standard architectural fare
- A curious quirky closed order of nuns of the Santa Clara convent who will sell you boxes of biscuits from a dumb waiter, ring the bell, place your aroder, pay and get some biscuits. What more fun can you have?. Were the biscuits really home made? Who knows!?
- The not particularly well reviewed Abaco bar, but on a budget a beer won’t cripple the finances and certainly worth a stop for the ambiance
- consider booking a trip on the tren de soller, but it’s now considered over-touristed and you will need to get your elbows out to board the train and trams. That eats in to half a day for 40 euros
- Cycle along the sea front, maybe the whole 15km to Arenal – notable for the German-targeted entertainment, but in itself nothing special to see. The section around the airport isn’t particularly appealing, but if you fancy bit of exercise and don’t mind the trip back too it just about works.
- There were some decent looking restaurants on the 50m pedestrianised road up to bar Abaco.
- And then simply wander around the old town
