Was Madeleine McCann's first overseas holiday to Mallorca in 2005, two years before her disappearance in Portugal? Reports online suggest that she travelled to the island with her parents and they stayed at a private villa near Sa Pobla and close to the Bay of Alcudia.
Maddie would have been just two years old at the time of the Mallorca holiday which has never been mentioned locally or by the mainstream media. It allegedly took place in the summer of 2005, possibly in August. Madeleine went missing in Portugal in 2007 just days before her fourth birthday.
It had been widely thought that the Portugal holiday was Maddie's first overseas trip but this has now been questioned by these online reports. It has been claimed that the McCanns came on holiday to Mallorca with friends.
SIGHTINGS IN MALLORCA
There were two alleged sightings of Maddie in the same area of Mallorca in 2008, a year after her disappearance.
A British couple on holiday in Cala d'Or said that they had seen a little girl resembling Madeleine on the beach on two occasions. The child was accompanied by two women, who had dark complexions unlike Madeleine. They told police at the time that they had seen the child and two women on two occasions. When the Bulletin published this report another British family contacted us stating: "We visited in 2008 with the family as I had my 50th birthday there. This was my mother’s last visit to Cala d'Or as she was nearly 80 years old. One of the things that stood out though was she told her us she had seen Madeleine on the Cala Gran beach, on two occasions during our stay, sitting in a pushchair with what appeared to be a wig on. At the time we dismissed her remark but now we do wonder."