Fly Like An Eagle

Following on from the piece about Son Real, more in the way of ecological soundness, this time in the form of little plastic figurines. The “Ultima Hora” newspaper is giving these away, their being representations of eighteen protected species to be found in and around the Balearics. So now I am already the proud owner of a little plastic fish-catching eagle which, in its moulded form, doesn’t look anything as vicious as the one in their booklet; indeed it looks quite cuddly, if plastic can ever be described as cuddly. Among the rest of these protected species are a number of birds such as the multi-coloured abellerol (whatever that is in English, but it’s like a long-beaked budgie), a falcon, a red-beaked seagull, one distinctly odd thing that’s like a cross between a chicken and an eagle, a type of puffin, and an unpleasant-looking vulture. All quite interesting, at least I think so, and it just goes to show that Mallorca and the Balearics are more than just your sand and sun.

And weather. Really humid. There is a feel to the weather in October when it is hot that it is like an oven. That’s a very simple and obvious description, but it’s apt in that there is an almost electrical feel to the heat; more kitchen, more artificial than natural.


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Index for September 2007

Aerodrome Puerto Pollensa - 5 September 2007
Agriculture - 6 September 2007
Air Berlin - 27 September 2007
Andratx - 12 September 2007
Animals - 15 September 2007, 26 September 2007
Autumn - 22 September 2007
Balearic economy - 6 September 2007
Balearic Government - 7 September 2007, 20 September 2007
Bars - 23 September 2007
Beach umbrellas - 1 September 2007, 20 September 2007
Beaches - 1 September 2007, 9 September 2007, 20 September 2007
Bullfighting - 15 September 2007
Can Picafort - 15 September 2007, 29 September 2007
Carretera Arta -25 September 2007
Coffee - 28 September 2007
Competitiveness - 6 September 2007
Construction - 6 September 2007
Crocs - 5 September 2007, 7 September 2007, 12 September 2007
Cruises - 9 September 2007
Diet - 9 September 2007
Dogs - 1 September 2007
Dunes - 1 September 2007
Fiestas - 15 September 2007, 28 September 2007
Figs - 9 September 2007
Floods - 23 September 2007, 24 September 2007
Fruit - 9 September 2007
Golf - 29 September 2007
Hospitals - 5 September 2007, 7 September 2007, 12 September 2007
Hotel occupancy - 25 September 2007
Innovation - 6 September 2007, 7 September 2007
Mallorca Day -12 September 2007
Mallorcan economy - 6 September 2007, 7 September 2007
Medical staff - 5 September 2007, 7 September 2007, 12 September 2007
Mile, The - 13 September 2007
National cultures - 4 September 2007
Pedestrian crossings - 4 September 2007
Palma metro - 23 September 2007, 24 September 2007, 27 September 2007
Playa de Muro - 1 September 2007, 20 September 2007, 22 September 2007
Police - 11 September 2007
Pollensa - 11 September 2007
Productivity - 6 September 2007
Property market - 11 September 2007
Public toilets - 23 September 2007
Puerto Alcúdia beach - 9 September 2007, 13 September 2007
Puerto Pollensa bypass - 5 September 2007
Restaurants - 1 September 2007, 23 September 2007
Road accidents - 16 September 2007
Roads - 5 September 2007, 7 September 2007, 25 September 2007
Royal Family - 2 September 2007
Russian tourism - 28 September 2007
Santa Margalida - 29 September 2007
School - 15 September 2007
September - 3 September 2007
Smells - 11 September 2007
Son Real - 29 September 2007
Storms - 15 September 2007, 16 September 2007
Street names - 17 September 2007
Sunbeds - 1 September 2007, 20 September 2007
Toilets - 23 September 2007
Tourism statistics - 25 September 2007, 27 September 2007, 28 September 2007
Tourism strategy - 18 September 2007, 20 September 2007
Tourist spend - 1 September 2007, 2 September 2007
Tourists - 22 September 2007
Unemployment - 6 September 2007
Vermar - 28 September 2007
Weather - 15 September 2007, 16 September 2007, 23 September 2007, 27 September 2007, 29 September 2007