The Swedish Christmas Market
Not all of you may know that Palma is the proud location of Mallorca’s Svenska Kyrkan (Iglésia Sueca, the Swedish Church) with facilities in Avinguda Joan Miró, just to the back of […]
Fira de s’Oliva
After a bit of a decline in olive oil output during the Seventies and Eighties, Oli de Mallorca has come back with a vengeance. Production of olive oil in Mallorca had […]
Dijous Bo
Every year on the third Thursday of November, Inca stages its Dijous Bo market, the year’s biggest market on the island. This year, for some reason, Dijous Bo falls on the […]
Bunyols and Buñuelos
During the Tots Sants celebrations, Mallorcans celebrate the festivities with plenty of sweet pastries. Bunyols or Buñuelos are particularly popular at this time of year. Bunyols are fritters commonly made […]
Todos Los Santos
Spain celebrates All Saints’ Day today, or Todos los Santos, or Tots Sants (November 1st). On this day families honour their deceased relatives and friends. Graves and tombs are cleaned […]
Xeremias and Xeremiers
Traditional Mallorcan music is unthinkable without the Xeremia (a bagpipe). Go to any village festa and you will hear them, together with small drums, flutes and tambours. The Mallorcan bagpipe is most likely […]
The Oratory de la Consolació
Santanyí in the south east of the island is a very particular Mallorcan pueblo, famous for artists like Cittadini, Sapere or Irueste, writers such as Blai Bonet, musicians like María […]
Grass Slippers
In Mallorca, a traditional craft of making sandals and shoes fashioned of grass, cane, raffia, palm leaves, sisal, bark, agave fibre, or any other odd plant material, strung, knotted, braided […]
The Esclatassang Mushroom Season
When Setas are on offer in the Mallorcan markets, one knows that Autumn has arrived. Somehow it seems a bit earlier this year than expected, but there we are. Temperatures […]
Barn Owls and Other Falconry
A friendly Bubo bubo eagle owl greeted me the other day, surrounded by his mates, a barn owl and a common owl. There were other birds of prey, such as […]
The Chainsaw Woodmill
In Cas Concos des Cavaller you can find a yard where wood is cut to size to fit your fireplace or any other practical purpose that you might have in […]
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year
Happy New Year 5769 to my Jewish visitors (hi, Mike). The Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah – the name means “Head of the Year” – is observed for two days beginning […]
Belly Dances in Mallorca
During a visit to the Mercado Medieval in Manacor, a week ago, I was surprised to suddenly be confronted by a group of young ladies, festively clad in what appeared to be […]
Wine Festival in Binissalem
For hundreds, possibly thousands of years, it was men and women who performed the harvest dance in barrels and presses of stomping or treading grapes into what is commonly referred to […]
A Very Long Walk to Lluc
The big annual walk from Palma de Mallorca up into the mountains and on to the Monasterio de Lluc happens in early August. It is called the Marxa des Güell a […]
Olive Oil Press
A traditional Mallorcan olive press for the extraction of olive oil is called a Tafona. The production of olive oil in Mallorca was never on a big scale, but came […]
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