TINA
Who is Tina Deutsch?
I was really looking forward to introducing myself to all of you. I am a German woman who fell in love with Sa Roqueta in 1992, since then, I knew that my home was meant to be on this island. If I had to define myself, it would be as an authentic and hard-working person. Otherwise, I would not have got to where I am today.
I love my family, my two children, my husband, and my small and not so small pets. I take great care of all my loved ones. I am also a hard worker, I am always focused on my goals: if I want something, I get it. I put a lot of energy into everything I do: ‘if you can think of something, you can have it’.
I also would like to emphasize that I was not born a fighter. I ended up taking it out over the years out of sheer necessity to bring up my children as a single mother and create our home.
‘If you can think of something, you can have it’
Mallorca
I had never considered living on the island. In fact, at first, I didn’t look upon it favorably. For me, Mallorca was synonymous with cheap tourism until I set foot on it for the first time. It was thanks to a friend, he booked a holiday home in Alaró. So, guess who was next… When I came to visit him I liked the island so much that I immediately rented a small house for four weeks.
I drove all over Mallorca, and when I say all over, I mean literally all over. I needed nothing more than a rental car and my two dogs, a Great Dane and a Pomeranian, to live one of the best adventures of my life. If today there are places in Sa Roqueta that Google Maps can’t find, imagine back then. The roads, the signposting… I was more lost than found, but thanks to this I was able to find wonderful places, which is my definition of paradise.
It was on my last day of this incredible adventure that I came across the house of my dreams. Located in Alaró, near the market square. I bought it. That was another odyssey.
First, I had to pay the seller’s mortgage at the bank. With the receipt, we went to the notary and signed the purchase contract in which, as was usual at the time, the full purchase price was not stated. But that is another subject that diverts us from my great feat. I renovated the house, built a swimming pool in the garden which, thanks to my Mallorcan neighbors and their knowledge of local regulations and norms, saved me a lot of trouble or, as they say here mal de caps.
This, as I said before, was back in 92. At the beginning we visited for holidays, but whenever I could, I extended my stay. In 1996 I had my first daughter, Maya, in my house in Alaró, and with a baby it was very easy to travel. Two years later I was pregnant again with my second child, and with two babies of such similar ages everything was more complicated.
I enjoyed the house in Alaró very much and I wanted to live in Mallorca more and more. But if I decided to move permanently to the island I needed to find the right house to start a family.
One-way ticket
When it was clear to me, I started looking for properties while I was pregnant with my second child, Yannis. Every week the Mallorca Magazin published classified ads, which I studied carefully and then contacted by phone. That’s how I found the finca Can Ramonet, my home, in the middle of the countryside between Inca and Llubí, literally in the center of the island. In the meantime, we lived in a rented house as I needed to sell the one in Alaró.
All this was a process because there was no flight that marked the before and after of our old life in Germany and the new one in Mallorca. We had already been considering the option of coming to live on the island for a long time, although in my life there has never been much planning. I like to improvise, doors open and I decide which one to go through.
If I could talk to the Tina of thirty years ago… I would say well done.
