There wasn’t a single blood-pressure cuff to be found in Puigpunyent. And it’s really too bad, because it would have been so satisfying to send a normal reading to my doctor in London. See? I’m not always hypertense!
This small village, only a 15-minute drive from Majorca’s capital city of Palma, is light on medical equipment. But it has little need for it. Drive through sparsely trafficked roads into the valley, gaze up at the pine-studded mountains, and tune in to the occasional whoop of birdsong. The rest of the world is still out there, but it all feels very hypothetical.
