Bonnie Lass
Bonnie Lass is a gem of a fishing trawler, built in 1949 in Scotland and under various owners worked ring-netting herring, dredged for scallops and fished for salmon and finally put out to pasture to spend our her days in...
Es Firo Sóller
Everyone likes a party but Es Firo in Sóller is the mother of all parties ! Three days of history and pageantry played out in the colourful re-enactment of the invasion by Turkish and Algerian pirates of Sóller and their...
Take to the streets at Easter in Mallorca
Spring has sprung early as always with Mallorca´s mild climate. The fields are carpeted with yellow buttercups and the wild jasmine catches your senses. Its almost Easter in Mallorca. Which only means one thing, that Semana Santa (Holy Week) is...
Mallorca Gin Distillery
Ross Mackinney, a Liverpudlian lover of Mallorca and a gin devotee, set up his distillery Mallorca Gin in summer 2018. Palma hadn’t seen the likes of this passion for gin and the team at this Aladdin’s cave of gleaming copper...
Balearic Day Mallorca
Balearic Day Mallorca is a real treat. On March 1 each year, there is a public holiday `Balearic Islands´ Day (Día de les Illes Balears) which commemorates the granting of autonomous government status to the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca,Ibiza and...
Go Potty in Pórtol
Fira del Fang ( Fiesta of Ceramics ) : 09 March – 17 March 2019 The word `ceramic´ is derived from the Greek word `keramos´ meaning clay and, stretching back many hundreds of years, Mallorca and more specifically Portol was at...
Rafa Nadal Academy
Visit the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor and prepare to be wowed by this world class sports academy. You might be mistaken into thinking this is all about tennis with 26 courts on offer, but you would be wrong. This...
Clickety clack, Palma to Sóller train
No visit to Mallorca is complete without a jaunt on the Palma to Soller train. Your journey, taking an hour to cover the 27 km, will begin in the ticket hall of Palma or Soller train stations which themselves are an...
Carnival in Mallorca!
We know how to `Carnival´ big-style in Mallorca! With the start of Lent looming, this years Carnival festivities take place around the island and in Palma over the weekend 02 – 03 March. Known in Mallorca as `Els Darrers Dies´(the...
Fabiola Gastronomic Garden
The thought of hotel restaurants in the past left us feeling a little cold. But not so nowadays when hotels are seeking out the best cuisine and concepts both for their resident guests and non residents. Fabiola Gastronomic Garden Restaurant...
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