Daily Life

The Choice is Yours

Mallorca is quite a unique island, really. Here, everyone can find what makes him (or her) happy, be it the long beach or the solitary cove, the old town of […]

Books & Authors

Good-Bye to All That

It’s time to say good-bye. After 1,928 daily blog entries between June 10th, 2007, and September 18th, 2012, a serious heart condition caught me unawares whilst on a short trip […]

Charities

Feeding the Starved

This may not be the image that the Mallorca Tourist Board would want to see highlighted, but there you go. Ever since unemployment rose to unprecedented levels here in Mallorca, […]

Beaches

Cool in the Pool

You may be surprised when I tell you that we do not possess a swimming pool. We had guests staying with us the other day, for a week or so. […]

Daily Life

Fifty Grades of Shade

We have recently been sent a heavy humid heat wave from the African land expanse. The Agencia Estatal de Meteorología has seen itself prompted to issue a Yellow Alert warning of […]

Daily Life

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Yesterday, I was reporting on the pneumatic collection of household refuse in the island capital, Palma. In country properties up and down Mallorca there is a different problem, that of […]

Daily Life

Pneumatic Rubbish Collection in Palma

A pneumatic rubbish collection was installed in Palma some ten years ago at a cost of 23,000,000 Euros. Subterranean tunnels would normally suck the waste to central collection points from […]

Architecture

The Bench of the Lazybones

Outside Palma’s Cort building (Ajuntament de Palma; Palma town hall) there is a beautiful hard stone bench inviting passers-by (and tourists) to sit down and have a break from the […]

Customs & Traditions

Cooking and baking in Mallorca would be inconceivable without Saïm (Castellano: Manteca, Lard), just as cooking would be without olive oil. Saïm is pig fat in both its rendered and non-rendered forms, […]

Customs & Traditions

Irreparabile Tempus

Time is relative. As Wikipedia puts it, time is used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change […]

Automobiles

Price Hikes

Steep price hikes were introduced from June 1st for transport on the island. The train from Palma to Manacor is now charged at 3.80 € one-way when it used to […]

Customs & Traditions

Water Music

One could argue that Mallorca lived a moment of advancement and prosperity during the period of Moorish jurisdiction. During that time (902-1229), progress was made by refining agricultural methods, by introducing […]

Daily Life

Death in the Afternoon

It’s a strange sensation when you see someone dying of a heart attack in front of your eyes and it is not a make-believe death on television, Casualty style. This […]

Customs & Traditions

The Language Crusade

For the last 18 months, my friend Lluís has been helping me improve my grasp of the Catalan language or rather, Mallorquín, a sub-species of that idiom. One of the […]

Bars & Restaurants

24 Hours in the Life of an Island

(near Felanitx, at 00:40:23) Twenty-eight years ago today, I orchestrated an exciting photo event in Los Angeles, California, in collaboration with one Red Saunders. Together, we edited the book that […]

Daily Life

A Country at a Standstill?

Today’s motto will be 29-M Huelga General. A nationwide General Strike is scheduled for Spain for today, March 29th. Beware. 445 flights have been cancelled so far, between Iberia and […]

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The Mallorca Photo Blog

Daily Life

The Choice is Yours

Good-Bye to All That

Feeding the Starved

Cool in the Pool

Fifty Grades of Shade

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

Pneumatic Rubbish Collection in Palma

The Bench of the Lazybones

Melting Down the Saïm

Irreparabile Tempus

Price Hikes

Water Music

Death in the Afternoon

The Language Crusade

24 Hours in the Life of an Island

A Country at a Standstill?