Not a Casa Señorial
A country dwelling in Mallorca is called a finca rustica. A slightly grander country property is called a casa señorial. And the nicest and oldest country retreats, those with a […]
Make Your Own Orange Liqueur
The orange season has started. Rather than giving you another gardening snippet, I have decided to offer you a recipe for an orange liqueur. Admittedly, it is not a recipe […]
Tree Planting Season
The time between November and February is the perfect season to plant your trees, if that is what you want. Local Viveros or garden centres are now offering a good […]
Sobrassada Con Miel
I mentioned Matanzas the other day. One essential component of these great Mallorcan Autumn rituals is the making of Sobrassada, a sausage meat that used to form part of the […]
Posidonia Oceanica
You may have found these small balls of odd matter on the beach in Mallorca, or if you haven’t, your children may have played with them or your grandchildren. Be […]
Matanza Time
November is the time of the year when Mallorcan families celebrate matanzas. A pig has been reared all year long. Now it is time to slaughter the animal, to make […]
Hail, Raimundus Lullus
Raimundus Lullus, better known as Ramon Llull, was a writer, a mystic and a philosopher from the 13th Century. He was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1232. His personæ […]
Honey is Good For You
The village of Llubí in the central plane of Mallorca celebrated its annual Honey Festival the day before yesterday, the VIII Fira de La Mel 2007. Mallorcan honey is quite […]
Hoorray for Clementines
The good news about winter time is that this is the season for oranges, mandarines, tangerines, clementines and satsumas. There are Spanish oranges of this year’s crop already in the […]
The First Almond Blossoms
Only yesterday, I was talking about Winter and the first snow this year. Today I am happy to tell you about the first signs of Spring. Weird, really. When I […]
Long Shadows
A few days ago, the midday sun in Mallorca was actually still quite hot. We had to move our table into the shade when we had coffee in the bar […]
The Strawberry Tree
I came across the Modroño fruit in a Palma supermarket yesterday. I had never seen the sweet fruit on sale anywhere before, but I had eaten it once or twice […]
Martes Y Trece
Be extra careful today. Friday 13th, i. e. a day to you and me of supposedly bad luck, is not the same in Spain. At least not on the same […]
Little Piggies Crawling in the Dirt
Sebastià, our local farmer has been breeding little piggies ever since we knew him, which is twenty years by now. I had to think of the Beatles song, Piggies, when […]
Autumn Leaves
Thinking of an island in the South, a Mediterranean island, one usually thinks of Summer, hot weather, the beach. One would not necessarily think of Autumn. Well, Autumn is here, […]
Waiting for the Big Catch
With a bit of patience this man might be lucky and catch a big fish. It certainly is the right time of year. However, living on the island of Mallorca […]
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