Parking can be a bit of a problem in Mallorca’s old towns and villages, especially on Market days when just everywhere is parked up. Even your own, private garage gets […]
Not quite as special as the famous Zen Gardens in Kyoto, this little corner at the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca invites you for a little […]
Petra in the centre of Mallorca, Spain, is the birth place of the Mallorcan missionary, Fray Junípero Serra. Serra is considered the Founding Father of California, USA. In July 1997, […]
‘Tengo hambre’ is Spanish for ‘I’m hungry’. This is a graffiti that I found spray-painted onto a bunker shell from the Spanish Civil War, at the beach of Es Trenc, […]
Mallorca with its 1,000,000 inhabitants offers the interested reader a choice of 3 daily newspapers in Spanish, one in Catalán, and one in English. The Majorca Daily Bulletin is the […]
Porto Colom, Mallorca, affords the largest interior harbour basin of any of Mallorca’s puertos. This particular harbour is graced by a very proud lighthouse. The photo was chosen from my […]
The island of Mallorca, Spain, offers about 26 lighthouses, called faros, to the seafaring community. That number includes two faros each on Isla Dragonera and on the Archipelago of Cabrera. […]
There are perhaps 45 monasteries on the island of Mallorca, including a dozen or so in the island capital of Palma de Mallorca. Less than fifteen are still run by […]
Although this lady’s bicycle must have seen better days, the owner still bothered to take it to the bike shop to have new tyres put on. Have a safe journey. […]
The island capital of Mallorca is Palma de Mallorca, a city of around half a million inhabitants. Palma is said to have been founded by the Romans almost 2,000 years […]