Planting Palm Trees

Arriving in Mallorca at the end of November is not the best time if you want to look for work. I didn't start looking until the new year which wasn't much better as the island is relatively quiet at that time of year. Of course it does depend on what work you want to do and how well you speak Spanish. As the island is largely dependent on tourism most of the work available revolves around the tourist industry in one way or another. There are a lot of people who have a second (or third!) home on the island and many properties are being built or refurbished (they call it reformed here) to supply this market. These houses have or need gardens and there is plenty of work to be done in this area. I was lucky enough to get a job fairly quickly designing gardens and helping implement the designs. This picture, along with the following few, illustrates the type of work being done in some of the properties being developed. here we have a group of 3 Washingtonia palm trees being lifted by a large crane. The road has been closed for the day. The trees are to be lowered down the hillside into the garden below which is still a building site.