Less air traffic passengers were accounted for during the month of July in Palma’s PMI airport, with 2,981,881 passengers coming to or leaving from Palma, compared with the same month […]
Cala d’Or used to be quite a prestigious holiday resort during the Fifties and Sixties when celebrities like Frank Sinatra or Farah Diba were amongst its visitors. Today the place […]
Only nine days have passed since the Palmanova bombing. Everything seems back to normal. Whilst there was police presence everywhere on Mallorca’s roads in the immediate aftermath of the horrific […]
Mallorca is in mourning after Thursday’s car bomb attack in Palmanova resulting in the death of two young Guardia Civil agents. Three days of mourning were declared last Thursday for […]
This week, Mallorca is enjoying one of the busiest weeks of this year’s temporada alta (high season). The tourist season 2009 does not seem all that bad for Mallorca considering […]
The new airport in Palma de Mallorca was designed by local architect, Pere Nicolau Bonet, and inaugurated just over ten years ago. Right from the start, passengers complained about the […]
At the bottom end of Passeig des Born in Palma de Mallorca you will find the Plaça Reina and its fountain displaying some beautiful cascades of jets of water. Opposite […]
One of the cultural highlights of the year in Palma de Mallorca are the Corpus Christi festivities, celebrated sixty days after Easter. As so many other festes this is originally […]
If you have not done any of the guided walks in Palma as part of the tours organized by the Govern de les Illes Balears, I suggest that you partake […]
The International Red Cross is a wonderful operation. I have never had a calamity where I would have been in need of their assistance, but it is a good feeling […]
The year 1928 was not a time when many people would have thought of building a hotel on the island of Mallorca. Only a mad person would endeavour such an […]
The hapless cruise ship MSC Fantasia is back in Palma after a two week voyage to the Western Mediterranean. The Italian owned MSC Cruises launched the 133,500-ton cruise liner Fantasia […]
Today is the third Sunday of Cuaresma. Now there are just over three more weeks left till Easter. I’m mentioning these religious holidays because Easter traditionally marks the start of […]
British author, Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, was a loyal visitor to Mallorca’s north eastern shores during the Thirties and Fifties when she stayed at the Hotel Illa d’Or […]
Most visitors to Mallorca arrive by plane, as we all know. However, between January and September of this year, more than 800,000 visitors arrived on board cruise liners. That’s quite […]
There can be no doubt. Summer has finally arrived in Mallorca. Ever since the last heavy rains in June, Mallorca has enjoyed high temperatures of around 30º C and up […]