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The Year of the Big Snow in Mallorca

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:39 +0000

Mallorca is back on Yellow alert today with more snow expected in the Tramuntana mountain range, but also at sea level from around lunchtime today. Temperatures will be below zero at their lowest today, with high temperatures not exceeding 6° C to 8° C anywhere here [...]

Magaluf is getting 4 more hotels

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:21:54 +0000

magaluf new hotels Four new hotels to be built in Magalluf Palma.—The 144 million euro investment in building four new hotels in Magalluf has been given the go ahead by the Balearic government.The Marina de Magaluf scheme, which has been on the table for the best part of a decade, is finally going [...]

The Snow of a Lifetime

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:50:47 +0000

Mallorca has just had the most snow I have seen in 25 years of living on this island. Newspapers reported that, at least in Palma, there has not been as much snow as last Saturday since 1956. Twenty-five roads had to be closed in the Tramuntana mountain range, as well as on the Puig [...]

Tunnel Visions

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:04:46 +0000

It may not be a phenomenon specific only to Mallorca, but there are a large number of underground passages and tunnels burrowed into the island’s underbelly. Think of the Roman aqueducts, part over- and part underground, or the Quanats and wells of Moorish origin. Think of the coal mines and the underground Marès quarries. [...]

Balearic tourism: Over ten million foreign tourists visited Balearics

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:34:37 +0000

Balearics tourism Palma.—Last year, a total of 10.9 million foreign holiday makers chose the Balearics, nearly ten percent more than in 2010 as the Spanish tourism industry as a whole enjoyed a marked increase in the number of foreign tourists. According to the annual report published by the Ministry for Tourism, Industry and Energy yesterday, [...]

Balearic population stands at over a million

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:25:52 +0000

Balearic population Over the past decade the British population in the Balearics has more than doubled, according to data published by the National Statistics Institute (INE) yesterday In 2001, there were 10’850 British residents registered with their town halls living in the Balearics, at the beginning of last year, that figure stood at 23’606. [...]

The Caleta des Portals Vells

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:55:51 +0000

Portals vells in Majorca Sometimes blogging is an endless accumulation of irritation and annoyance. To me anyway. For a couple of months now I have been meaning to take a photo of the lighthouse of Cala Figuera in Calvià. I went there in December but somehow missed the turning on the new motorway to suddenly [...]

palma tourism foundation is official

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:40:11 +0000

PALMA TOURISM FOUNDATION Palma.—The Mayor of Palma, Mateu Isern, yesterday presided over the official creation of the new Palma 365 Tourism Foundation. The new body’s primary aim is to promote the capital as a serious city holiday destination and is a public/private venture involving the region’s leading tourism and businesses entities as well as the [...]

Costa Concordia Implications

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:23:55 +0000

Costa Concordia When the MS Costa Concordia suffered a tragic accident in Italy last Friday, a Friday the 13th at that, one did not immediately see any implications of the calamity on our island, Mallorca. Well, it happens that this gargantuan cruise ship was scheduled to arrive in the Port of Palma yesterday, and of [...]

Majorca hug day 27 january 2012

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:09:16 +0000

Majorca hug day: only 1 euro for a hug It is International Majorca Hug Day on Saturday January 21.The team from English Radio Mallorca wants as many people a possible on Mallorca to get hugging for charity. One of the radio team, Phil Bean, is travelling to Ethiopia on Thursday January 26 to help with [...]