Centenary of Air Traffic in Mallorca
Mallorca is about to celebrate a centenary of air traffic on its shores. One hundred years ago, in early June, 1910, an aeroplane was brought over from Barcelona by boat. […]
The Citroën Deux Chevaux Pick-Up
French car makers Citroën were taken over by their biggest creditors in 1935, the Michelin tyre factory people. In 1939 and under the auspices of Michelin, the cunning TPV (Toute […]
Scrapyards
Scrapyards are a useful invention. In Spain, scrapyards for car parts and accessories are called Desguaces (Catalan: Desballestament). You may just find the spare part that your vehicle needs (provided […]
Coach Drivers United
The beginning of May is usually the start of the holiday season for Mallorca. A smaller number of hotels already opened for business at Easter but the majority of hotels […]
Light And Shadows
The island of Mallorca is not a very large place by any means, considering its land extension or the size of its population. But that’s only one side of the […]
Almost Back To Normal
Palma International Airport (PMI) was almost back to normal yesterday, thank you very much, as was most of the airspace in Spain and, really, most of air traffic in Europe. […]
New Palma Buses Are Less Polluting
There’s good news in Palma. About a week ago, EMT, the municipal bus company in Palma, launched a fleet of 12 new buses, all running on natural gas. The new […]
Trainspotting
You may not have seen one of these machines before. At least, I hadn’t. I am not usually known as a trainspotter, but when I saw this beast at Manacor […]
The Train To Sóller
The Sóller railway offers a daily train service between Palma de Mallorca and Sóller. This tren with its old wooden carriages has undoubtably turned into one of the most successful […]
The Aeródromo de Son Bonet
The Aeródromo de Son Bonet was Mallorca’s original civil airfield. Mallorca’s first ever airplane landed here in 1916. Son Bonet was inaugurated in 1920 as Mallorca’s official airport under the […]
Rear View
This is the rear window of the horse-drawn carriage that I showed you last August (Carriages before Hispano-Suiza). I had an opportunity to revisit Ca’n Vivot in Palma recently where […]
The Useless Airport Terraces
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 […]
Mallorca Transport
Mallorca’s inter-urban trains and buses are associated with one another in a loose network of companies, called Transport de les Illes Balears (t.i.b.). As this is Spain, all transport in […]
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