July 2007 – The Mallorca Photo Blog

Once in a Blue Moon

It was a Full Moon last night. If a second Full Moon occurs in a single calendar month it is called a Blue Moon. On average, only 41 months will […]

Daily Life

When Push Comes to Shove …

Have you ever travelled without luggage? Freedom. For one, your luggage could not get lost. And also, you would not need these trolleys. The photo was taken at Palma International […]

Daily Life

Happy Landings

This is Palma International Airport. The view is of the terminal building from the car park, with a 5,500 vehicle capacity. PMI airport counts over 22,000,000 air passengers per year […]

Daily Life

Espanya Go Home

Quite a large number of people in Mallorca would like to be independent from Spain. Often these people are the older ones, or they belong to the younger generation. Their […]

Daily Life

A Taste of 1984 …

A total of 24 CCTV surveillance cameras have been installed in Felanitx by mayoress, Catalina Soler, over the last few weeks. Big Sister is watching you. As it turns out […]

Daily Life

A Night in Heaven

If you ever want to get away from it all, I suggest that you spend a night or two in one of Mallorca’s many monasteries. Like this one, for instance, […]

Daily Life

Going With the Times …..

Santanyí in the south east of Mallorca is celebrating its patron saint today, 25th July: Sant Jaume. When we first came to live in Mallorca, 20 years ago, we settled […]

Daily Life

War and Peace

Most Spanish towns and cities have statues and memorials for their war dead. The battles won, or lost, most often refer to the victims of the Civil War, 1936-39. The […]

Animals

A Day at the Races

There are two race courses for horse trotting on the island of Mallorca, one in Manacor and one in Palma. The photo was taken during the warm-up; the actual race […]

Daily Life

Room With a View

This is where we live. The photo shows the view that we have from our master bedroom, in our house in Felanitx, Mallorca. The photo was taken in the town […]

Art & Artists

Mysterious Ladies in Waiting

Something mysterious was going on in Palma’s Borne yesterday. An exhibition of some 15 large scale sculptures from the series Les Ménines by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942), […]

Daily Life

Resting in Peace

I like cemeteries. They tell you a lot about the culture and the traditions of a place. In Spain, the final resting place is overground. Like these ones, to be […]

Daily Life

Small is Beautiful

I find it pleasing to the senses to see things like they were in the past. Like this one, with two pumps probably one of the smallest petrol stations on […]

Daily Life

One Way to Spend Christmas

Everyone would assume that one could only take a photo like this one during the summer. Not so in Mallorca. This photo was taken on Christmas Day, last year. The […]

Daily Life

Happy Moments

This happy couple was wed at Nuestra Señora de Gracia monastery, on top of the Randa mountain, a few days ago. I hope they had a happy honeymoon. Best wishes. […]

Daily Life

Eight Weeks to Go

The annual grape harvest is only about eight weeks away now. The biggest wine making area in Mallorca is in Binnissalem, but the Pla i Levant comes a close second. […]

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Month: July 2007