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Month: April 2009

The Palma Boat Show

The XXVI Saló Nàutic (Salón Náutico) Internacional de Palma is in full swing now. Some 160 exhibitors present more than 300 boats on Palma’s Moll Vell in Paseo Maritimo until […]

The Wild One

Two or three dozen Harley-Davidson riders came to Felanitx last Sunday and proudly presented their Fat Boys, Evolutions and Twin Cams to an eager audience of motorcycle starved Felanitx youngsters. […]

The Mallorcan Land Tortoise

Three species of indigenous tortoises exist in Mallorca. The Testudo hermanni (shown here) is a land tortoise and can be found in the eastern parts of the island, in particular […]

Older Than Methuselah

Ca La Seu is a shop in Palma’s old town, joining on to Plaça Quartera in the barrio of sa Gerreria, selling espartería (i. e. baskets, espadrilles, straw hats, mats […]

The Diada de Sant Jordi

Both, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes happen to share the same day of their demise on April 23rd, 1616, almost four hundred years ago. To commemorate the two immortal […]

Guided Walks in Palma

If you have not done any of the guided walks in Palma as part of the tours organized by the Govern de les Illes Balears, I suggest that you partake […]

Ramon Llull’s Cave

The Santuari Mare de Déu de Cura is a monastery located on top of the Randa mountain in the municipality of Algaida. It is considered an eminently Llullian site (Ramon […]

El Rey Del Clay

Rafa Nadal, the 22 year old from Manacor, Mallorca, made it into the history books once more. He became the first player to win five Monte-Carlo Masters titles in succession […]

Western Sahara News

The people of Sàhara Occidental (Western Sahara) lamented their plight last Friday in Palma de Mallorca as well as in other Spanish cities, including Madrid. Sàhara Occidental is a country […]

Folkloric Dancing

For the last 13 years, the City of Palma de Mallorca together with the Consell de Mallorca and the Govern Balear staged an annual Festival Mundial de Danses Folklòriques, and […]

Lomo Con Col

This pig in my photo is the biggest porcine animal I have ever seen, in Mallorca or anywhere else. Tradition and circumstance had it that pigs and pork played a […]

The Capella de Son Real

Son Real is a Mallorcan country estate of quite some historical magnitude. The finca was first documented during the 14th century. One hundred years later, the posesió was owned by […]

Dancing Bees

In 23 years in Mallorca I have not seen so many bees buzzing away as I have during the last few weeks of Spring. I do not have any clue […]