Even the air smelled sweet in the cool white lobby of Villa le Blanc, on the sunny south coast of Menorca. It could be the trailing lavender plants framing the vast central pool, or the just-squeezed lemonades handed out to my kids at reception, but the sweetness lasted for our whole week on this calm, child-friendly island.
Menorca, the grown-up older sister to its party animal siblings Mallorca and Ibiza, revealed itself to be a version of Maldives-like tropics, only a two-hour flight from London.
