No Parking, Please
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 […]
Zen Garden in Palma de Mallorca
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 […]
Waiting for President Clinton
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
‘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, […]
Reading the News
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 […]
Let There be Light
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 […]
A Delicate Balance
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. […]
Sancta Nobis, Bonany
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 […]
Past its Prime
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. […]
Do as the Romans do
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 […]
