Speed... action... and dive!

Hi my new English friends!

You may think Majorca only offers water-sports and that we all eat coconuts while we dance around the camp fire on the beach. Well, we don't hope that you think so, but we want to talk to you about the enormous range of sports you can do here anyway. 
Of course the activities related to water are obviously quite popular around here because we are surrounded by it. You can find many people practising sports such as swimming, kayaking, sailing or windsurfing in Majorca specially in summer. Surfing, though, isn't that usual here because the waves aren't big enough. So, you might see some amateurs practising, but professionals surfers go to other places like Central American beaches.

A breathtaking activity you can do here is diving. There are a lot of coloured fish in different sizes. Corals appear in any colour you can imagine and the water is normally crystal clear.
The Serra de Tramuntana is our main mountain range, we are very proud of it and a lot of activities on this island are due to its presence, hiking is an example. There are many excursions you can do here, some of this are actually very difficult and well-known like the "Torrent de Pareis".
On the other hand most of us do typical sports like football or tennis. We suppose that like everywhere, football is also very popular in Birmingham. Here anyway, a lot of young people are part of a football club and play matches regularly. Other boys and girls play paddle, tennis, volleyball, basketball, table tennis or do horse riding. Of course there are water-sports competitions too. The most common ones are swimming, waterpolo or sailing events.

So taking all this into account Majorca is a great place to practise sports, don't you think? That's it for today, we hope you learned something new about on fantastic little island and we look forward to showing you some of the things we talked about.

By: Charlotte, Paula and Marga.