When it comes to luxury, Mallorca hotels are highly regarded the world over. With a location that’s impossible to beat, and an age-old reputation for revitalizing the traveler, the island life will take you in like an old friend. There are beautiful and brilliant restaurants here, amazing beaches that call out every moment of every day, and a lovely culture that’s been forming around the island for centuries. Both local and expat communities here form the core of Mallorca, and their histories are fascinating.
One of the area’s most renowned residents is artist Cynthia Lennon. She’s made this island her home, and has settled in here quite nicely over the years, being both a member of the community and an artist enjoying the solitude to get the energy to keep creating new work. She lives in close proximity of her son, Julian Lennon. With their shared last name, it’s difficult for both celebrities to leave behind their tie to John Lennon. And not that they necessarily want to. She was his first wife, and gave up her art school path to be the caretaker of their son, Julian, while her husband went on to become extraordinarily famous. Somewhere in the middle of things, John met Yoko, and the rest is history. Despite some of the bitterness surrounding the split, and the estrangement Julian has felt for his absent father over the years, Cynthia does speak freely about their relationship, and the influence they had on each other. She is remarried now, having been through a couple of missteps, and is very, very happy. She is painting, and sometimes recording music of her own, while her son, Julian, a brilliant musician in his own write, runs his own restaurant here.
Cynthia Lennon is not so much in touch with Yoko Ono, as might be expected. But she has developed a friendship with May Pang, another other woman in John Lennon’s life. When he and Yoko were temporarily apart, he spent 18 months with May, and refers to this time as a lost weekend. May Pang released a book about this 18-month lost weekend, “Instamatic Karma,” and Cynthia even flew out to New York from her home in Mallorca for the release party.
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