The Changing of the Guard
The Changing of the Guard in Palma is quite a spectacle with the added bonus that it is free! Taking place on the last Saturday of each month at noon (7.30pm during the hotter months ) it dates back to...
Ta Palma
Lick your lips and tingle your tastebuds for Palma’s annual tapas festival ‘TaPalma’ is only a month away. Running from 26 November to 02 December and now in its 13th year, Palma will be welcoming thousands of visitors over the...
Formentor, the end of the line…
Think Lands End, stunning scenery and outstanding natural beauty and you can imagine what to expect from the Cap de Formentor. A finger of land, at the most northern tip of Mallorca, just pointing across the water at its sister...
A lap round the Sóller Valley
This walk awards you with fantastic views over the Sóller valley and takes in four picturesque historic towns and villages, Sóller, Biniaraix, Fornalutx and Port de Soller. Towering above you are the craggy peaks of the Tramuntana, the Mediterranean sea...
Liquid gold at Aubocassa but no need to rush!
Aubocassa´s mission is a formidable one: to produce the best of virgin and extra virgin olive oil to showcase to the world what Mallorca has to offer! The estate is overseen by Tiffany Black and her team who will talk...
GAIA Natural Products
The GAIA (meaning mother earth ) Natural Products story began in a family kitchen in Mallorca. Homeschooling four children in a finca on a hill overlooking Andratx in the south of the island, the founder, Trudi Murray, needing to make...
Sipping and Stomping in Binissalem
Fancy getting down and very dirty ? Then ` Festa des Vermar ´ in the wine town of Binissalem is the place to be in September. Mallorcans love their wine. Binissalem is the centre of one of the most important...
Bike hire in Palma
The international superstars of cycling have done wonders over the last few years to get us interested in two wheels so why not bike hire in Palma ? Mallorca is widely regarded as a cyclist’s paradise, and with good reason. Many...
Art in the Tramuntana
It is no surprise to those of us who have had the privilege of living in or visiting the Tramuntana that these majestic mountains have inspired artists for nigh on 200 years. The sheer splendour of the terrain, lofty peaks,...
Bike Tours in Palma
Welcome to Palma – a city that has seriously got the cycling bug and is perfect for a Bike Tour. Serious amounts of money have been spent in recent years by the Palma city council in developing cycling routes so...