Pumpkin Time
It’s pumpkin time again. Halloween, tonight, October 31st. Halloween is not really a vital tradition here in Mallorca, nor anywhere else in Spain but, with globalisation abound, you can now […]
Rosarios For The Kids
Around this time of year, in the lead-up to Tots Sants (All Saints Day), you will find bakeries and patisseries offering a wide and colourful array of Rosarios (strings of […]
Death Valley
What do you tell a friend who asks whether it will be safe to hike in the Torrent des Pareis in November? A hard one to answer if you feel […]
Trobada Internacional de Tir de Foners
The Iª Trobada Internacional de Tir de Passetja (1st International Meeting of Slingers) will be held in Sóller from today until Sunday. The main event and competition will be on […]
Autumn Fruit And Versatility
Sometimes I keep photos flagged for use at a later stage and then, with the passing of time, I forget where the photo was taken. Take today’s photo as an […]
Caulking
There’s no point in sailing a boat out in the sea if the boat then sinks. To make sure this does not happen, one has to give special attention to […]
Protected Housing in Can Ribas
Weaving and industrial fabrication of textiles were a big industry in Mallorca at the end of the 19th century with perhaps a dozen factories sharing the market between them. Can […]
Highway Robbery
Somehow, a few years ago, car rental in Mallorca went down the wrong year. La Crisis, again. Car hire firms, there are about 40 of them on the island, not […]
Gínjols And Ginjolers
One of the oldest fruits on the planet is relatively common here in Mallorca, and yet, we do not seem to know much about it. The Mallorcans call the fruit […]
Playing Monte
I don’t see my friend Jaume very often, these days. He’s getting on a bit, being in his late eighties, and he rarely leaves home any more. There were times […]
The Monument Of Crist Rei
If you know Felanitx, you probably also know the Santuario de la Mare de Déu de Sant Salvador (Monastery of Sant Salvador), some 7 km away from the town. From […]
The Art Of Wine Making
The 2011 wine harvest is done by now, at least here in Mallorca. It was a good year, or so one supposes. It may even make for an exceptional wine. […]
The Fira de Sa Sobrassada de Mallorca
I have an admission to make. This is not an objective blog. Much as I might try to be guided by objectivity when reporting about this island, how can I […]
Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío (1867-1916) was born as Félix Rubén García Sarmiento in Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The prolific poet Darío has had some significant influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. […]
Contraband in Cala Murada
Cala Murada on the East Coast is as strange a place as you will ever find in Mallorca. When I first went there, some thirty years ago, elderly people sat […]
Rumpus And Radar On The Puig de Randa
The small village of Randa sits comfortably at the foot of the Puig de Randa mountain (543 m) but, seems slightly bothered by Mallorca’s largest installation of Radar and other […]
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