At this time of the year you will see farmers in Mallorca beating long dark locust beans off their trees with long sticks. Now is the time for the annual […]
Felanitx celebrates a bullfight only once a year, on August 28th, the day of Sant Agustí. The photo shows the Plaza de Toros (bullring) with the novillada going on inside. […]
Palma de Mallorca is proud about the new Palma Aquarium, in Ciutat Jardín. You can see some nice fish there, but the steep entry fees may deter you from a […]
Felanitx celebrates the fiesta de Sant Agustí. The annual festivities are called the verbenas (fun fairs) which are celebrated from now until 2nd September. There will be five or six […]
Felanitx celebrated a Nit de l’Art as part of the town’s festivities of Sant Agustí, last Friday night. Very few artists’ work impressed me. An exception was Felanitx sculptor, Jaume […]
Felanitx is the third largest town on the island of Mallorca, after Palma and Manacor. Felanitx is known on the island for its wine and for the annual verbenas. The […]
The 23rd Almirante Conde de Barcelona Trophy was raced in Palma de Mallorca last weekend. The beauty about this particular, annual boat regatta is that it is being raced between […]
One can find a lot of art in Palma de Mallorca. Plenty of the artworks are sculptures, lots of which are placed in public spaces. This one here is a […]
Rainbow coloured chili peppers were for sale at the market last Sunday. What beautiful little things. What delightful colours. Chili peppers not only are pleasing on the eye, they are […]
You can see the beauty of a person in the eyes, or some other small detail. The same is true with beautiful objects of any kind. A church, a castle […]
Municipal Police forces on the island of Mallorca have recently changed their livery to this loud and cognitive colour scheme. But only the Policia Local of the town of Felanitx […]
Yesterday afternoon, Saturday, we enjoyed a drink in the local Palmtree square, and feeling lazy. Temperatures were high, some 28° Celcius. No tourists were to be seen, anywhere. Bliss. The […]
If you want to explore some of Palma’s historic sights, you could take a taxi. Alternatively, why not take one of these horse drawn carriages? They will take you on […]
There are some 13,000,000 visitors coming to Mallorca every year. Most of them come in July and August, at the height of summer. There should be some 1,500,000 tourists on […]