A Minimum Viable Beach Bar
What is a Minimum Viable Product? An improvised beach bar on Mallorca can teach you a thing or two about this.
We held next to the main road.
Our goal was to reach a small beach which was lesser known to tourists and promised to be less crowded. A friend had recommended it to us, saying that it was a bit hard to reach but worth it.
Now we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere and looked down a bumpy gravel road. The sun was burning and every move made us sweat.
The road would have brought us nearer to the beach and we wondered if we should take the risk. But looking down that road, we could spot some serious potholes. Otherwise, the road didn’t seem very inviting either. It seemed there was a real risk for a broken axle on our rental car if we weren’t cautious enough. So we decided not to take that risk and walk.
It was a long walk in the heat of the midday sun but we did it.
After a while, we stumbled into a gate. The gate and a walk through uncertain terrain was the last thing between us and the beach. We slipped through the gate and conquered the terrain behind. After around another fifteen minutes we could see the sea. When we finally arrived we had spent almost an hour since we parked the…
