On the crest, the silhouette of a windmill. Not long after I would catch sight of three more, lined up. These windmills and the belfry represent the landmarks of Búger amidst a hilly landscape. Varied scenery, dry farming and irrigated land, almond trees and cereals. There are still small holm-oak woods, a tree that is vanishing from the Mallorcan countryside. We enter Búger and immediately it starts to rain again. We run towards the square, where there must be a coffee bar. There are two, closed.

A peu per Mallorca (Mallorca by foot), 2005

Translated by Claudia Cohen.

(Barcelona, 1927). Josep Maria Espinàs is a writer and novelist. His literary career covers novels, travel books, articles and memoirs. Also noteworthy are a collection of newspaper articles and writings that appeared in the press. He was one of the founders of the group Setze Jutges,“Sixteen Judges” in 1960 and he is also the author ofmusicated poems as well as plays. Some of the titles of his novels include Com ganivets o flames (1954), La trampa (1956), or Vermell i passa (1992). His travel books constitute a prolific corpus in his oeuvre, among them A peu per Mallorca published in 2005.