An Alternative to Chocolate

At this time of the year you will see farmers in Mallorca beating long dark locust beans off their trees with long sticks. Now is the time for the annual […]

After the Bullfights, it’s Correfoc Time

Most every village in Mallorca has a correfoc, a run […]

Felanitx Has Its Own Pamplona Day

Felanitx celebrates a bullfight only once a year, on August 28th, the day of Sant Agustí. The photo shows the Plaza de Toros (bullring) with the novillada going on inside. […]

Palma Blues

Palma de Mallorca is proud about the new Palma Aquarium, in Ciutat Jardín. You can see some nice fish there, but the steep entry fees may deter you from a […]

Felanitx is All Verbenas

Felanitx celebrates the fiesta de Sant Agustí. The annual festivities are called the verbenas (fun fairs) which are celebrated from now until 2nd September. There will be five or six […]

Art for Art’s Sake

Felanitx celebrated a Nit de l’Art as part of the town’s festivities of Sant Agustí, last Friday night. Very few artists’ work impressed me. An exception was Felanitx sculptor, Jaume […]

Ready, Steady, Go

Felanitx is the third largest town on the island of Mallorca, after Palma and Manacor. Felanitx is known on the island for its wine and for the annual verbenas. The […]

After the Race

The 23rd Almirante Conde de Barcelona Trophy was raced in Palma de Mallorca last weekend. The beauty about this particular, annual boat regatta is that it is being raced between […]

Library of Mallorcan Artists

One can find a lot of art in Palma de Mallorca. Plenty of the artworks are sculptures, lots of which are placed in public spaces. This one here is a […]

Garden Delights

Rainbow coloured chili peppers were for sale at the market last Sunday. What beautiful little things. What delightful colours. Chili peppers not only are pleasing on the eye, they are […]

Beautiful Entrance

You can see the beauty of a person in the eyes, or some other small detail. The same is true with beautiful objects of any kind. A church, a castle […]

Lavaderos Publicos

Municipal Police forces on the island of Mallorca have recently changed their livery to this loud and cognitive colour scheme. But only the Policia Local of the town of Felanitx […]

Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Yesterday afternoon, Saturday, we enjoyed a drink in the local Palmtree square, and feeling lazy. Temperatures were high, some 28° Celcius. No tourists were to be seen, anywhere. Bliss. The […]

A Taxi Ride, the Old Way

If you want to explore some of Palma’s historic sights, you could take a taxi. Alternatively, why not take one of these horse drawn carriages? They will take you on […]

Tourist Season

There are some 13,000,000 visitors coming to Mallorca every year. Most of them come in July and August, at the height of summer. There should be some 1,500,000 tourists on […]

A Bigger Splash

Nothing better than a splash when the going gets hot in the summer. Lucky are those who have a pool of their own, or who know some friend that has […]