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Excursions Out & About in Majorca Been on any good day trips lately (or in the last few years!)? Tell us all about it.

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Old 16-10-2010, 14:57
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Has anyone been to this town,have just read a little bit in a magazine that says its really pretty with lots of windmills and a twenty minute drive from puerto pollensa.
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Old 16-10-2010, 19:38
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Never been ...... but the kids used to have a field day shouting out its name ( pronounced in good old british accents to get maximum effect ) as we saw the sign ....... was one of the moments that will go down as lifetime PP memories
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Cd our kids used to do the same and just today friends we are out with yelled it out as we passed the sign. Some people never grow up
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Lol!! i said it on Wednesday on the bus back from Palma .
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Old 16-10-2010, 20:24
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We have driven through Buger several times on the way back from lunch at Menestralia if we fancied the scenic route rather than the motorway. It is very pretty but I don´t know much else about it. We need to send an explorer !
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From what I can remember, it is a very small village, with a windmill behind the church. A small square with a couple of bars. Some lovely views that you come across when walking around the narrow roads - but nothing much else to write home about. It was two or three years ago though, but I cant imagin it has changed much.

Even a write up struggles to find something to say!

"A five minute walk takes you to the village of Buger (pronounced Boojah!) with its four unique windmills, three bars (one does a good bacon and egg breakfast, and sometimes serves evening meals), a great bakery, basic provisions store, post office and of course a lovely old church. There is a small Saturday market but it's all over by 11:30!"
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Every time we go past the sign my OH goes 'Well Buger me' just gets so predictable really ! I remember the couple who have La Forteleza live there - thats about its only claim to fame I can remember!
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The island has many of these little villiages. Bugar was pushed by agents a few years ago when I was first looking to buy. I was told it was up and coming as English who didn't have the budget for Pollensa were buying there! I'm glad I wasn't gulliable and hung on until I could afford Pollensa as no contest!
The lights went off and no one was home!
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Have visited this little village. Nothing special, market day when I went about 4 stalls.
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4 stalls, 3 bars - my kind of town
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to this day every time we drive past the sign I cant resist a little snigger ( still a child) could you imagine having a place there and trying to explain to the people in England that you stay in a buger of a place lol
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Its proper pronounciation of Boojah sounds just right for Halloween!
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Old 04-11-2010, 14:30
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Isn't it Boohah, more suitable for Christmas? like this Bugar
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For some reason I cant hear the translation, but the "j" is pronounced as an "h" in Spanish so I think thats what you mean, and certainly is the way I think it is pronounced!
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Old 04-11-2010, 17:26
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The pronounciation of the Spanish "G" as i understand it here is very gutteral, it sounds like you are clearing your throat.
That said, do we really need to be so serious about it, i think most of us were just having a bit of fun.....childish maybe...but fun anyway. Lets not get too heavy guys....pleeeez.
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