Día Mundial Sin Tabaco
I daresay that the Día Mundial Sin Tabaco (World No Smoking Day) today will not leave much of a mark in Spain, certainly not in Mallorca where I live. Let’s […]
The Sa Nostra Garden
We are really quite lucky in having so many beautiful gardens and parks in Palma de Mallorca. It is marvellous that many of these are open to the public. One […]
Kite Surfing
We had an unusual amount of wind in Mallorca yesterday, and cold wind it was too. But some people were not bothered by yesterday’s wind, quite the opposite. Kite surfers […]
A Mallorcan Stonehenge
Mallorca is the proud home of plenty of prehistoric sites, numbering well over one thousand. Many of them have deteriorated into a pretty poor shape with their original form barely […]
National Health Service
If ever you should have reason to visit a Centre de Salut in Mallorca, as I had the other day in Felanitx, you can simply relax. You’ll be surprised how […]
The Great Wall of Palma de Mallorca
For many centuries Palma de Mallorca was fortified by a massive great wall, all the way around the city. It would seem, that historians do not always agree as to […]
La Sínia de s’Hort d’en Pons
Not far from Felanitx, in the vicinity of Es Carritxó, one can find a marvel of an old Moorish well: La Sínia de s’Hort d’en Pons. The well is called […]
Mare de Deu, 75 Years On
The town of Felanitx had cause for a little celebration yesterday. 75 years ago, the town’s people decided to have their Mare de Déu (Virgin Mary) fitted with a crown. […]
The Road To Sóller
The road between Palma and Sóller passes through the longest tunnel on the island with its 3,023 metres, if you wish to use the tunnel. When the tunnel was built […]
The Sheltering Sky
If you were in Mallorca yesterday you will have noticed a particular quality of heat, as well as a sheltering sky. Temperatures yesterday were an unusual 31° Celsius here in […]
Felanitx In Crisis
Many people don’t like Felanitx. Let me rephrase that: many foreigners consider Felanitx not much of a picture postcard town. I do love Felanitx, though. I’ve been living here with […]
The Sally Holmes Shrub Rose
It may be an annual mantra of mine impressing on you the beauty of the gardens of Sa Bassa Blanca, owned by the Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, near the […]
Wine From Felanitx
In his treatise of Naturalis Historiæ (Natural History), Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 – 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, elaborated on Mallorca’s œnological efforts and the art of […]
Mallorca’s Black Vultures (Aegypius monachus)
Mallorca is the only remaining island in Europe where the […]
¡Enhorabuena!
It was a beautiful day yesterday, with early signs of impending Summer. Temperatures were 24° C in the air with moderate winds, and 19° C in the Mediterranean waters. It […]
The Caves of Puig de Sa Mola
It is said that the area of Felanitx in Mallorca’s South East has been populated for about 4,000 years by now. Historians claim that two pre-Talayotic settlements were established here […]
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