It’s Raining Men

At the risk of being tasteless, the title is a reference to the unfortunate fact that this season, as others have before, has seen a number of people - men by and large (in fact very large) fall off of balconies. Now this is something not to be made light of (it should be made heavy of), as the consequences have been fatal on several occasions. The latest incident occurred in the south-east in Santanyi where a balustrade gave way when a bunch of German tourists were taking a photo. An excessive amount of weight was believed to have caused the accident. An excessive amount of weight was also a factor when one Brit fell in Magaluf some weeks back.

The thing is that holiday brains kick in. Let’s go climb from one balcony to a next; let’s go take a photo on the railings; let’s go fall off and smash ourselves to pieces. I once bumped into some total jerk in a bank in Puerto Alcúdia who was nursing a broken limb. He had been lucky, though quite why he was so boastful of the fact that the injury had occurred when clambering from one balcony to the next at five in the morning on a full tank beats me.


Anyone who has stayed in Can Picafort will know that the tourist office there is poorly sited. There may be many who have stayed there who were unaware of its location or even of its existence. Wouldn’t surprise me. It is in fact in a building shared with the Guardia and the local police on the road going towards the second roundabout in Can Pic (after which you head off towards Son Serra). In other words, it is in no-man’s-land or rather in no-tourist’s-land, stuck between the main part of Can Pic and Son Bauló. It is also often shut; as far as I’m aware there is only the one person.

Well, the council seems finally to have woken up to the fact that it’s not much use where it is, so they are looking for a site on the front more in the midst of where tourists are to be found and looking at more personnel. About time, too.


QUIZ
Yesterday - Courtney Pine. Today’s title. Again, it’s very easy, so which cartoon character’s favourite song is this?

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