Showing posts with label Mallorcan society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mallorcan society. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Great Expectations: The Mallorcan novel

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When I was small, and before we moved and the books mostly ended up in the new house's loft, the dining-room had two immense bookcases. ...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The Habits Of A Lunchtime

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Television killed the art of conversation. Wrong. The art of conversation, the British art of conversation, never existed, especially not at...
Friday, August 05, 2011

Coughing Blood: The bullfight

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AnimaNaturalis is not popular. Animal rightists, it offends traditional animal abusers, other animal-rights groups and a fair chunk of what ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Murky Waters - Jaume Matas and Mallorcan society

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The former president of the Balearics, Jaume Matas, is finally up before the beak to answer allegations related to public money that seeming...
Monday, March 22, 2010

As The Miller Told His Tale: Restoration of mills in Mallorca

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The transformation of Mallorca during Franco's time, and since, has been one of contradictions. The greatest change occurred in the ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

The Scream: The anniversary of corruption in Mallorca

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It was another holiday yesterday. For once, not a religious occasion, but a political one. Balearics Day, the twenty-seventh anniversary of ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Thus Spake Zarathustra - The downfall of Mother Munar

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Maria Antònia Munar, matriarch of the Unió Mallorquina party and of Mallorcan politics, has finally quit her post as speaker of the Balearic...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Losing Their Religion - religious study in Mallorca

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Good news for Mallorcan agnostics. Religious education is less popular than it was. The Balearics have fewer students taking religion than a...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Blind Faith

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The Germans go big on Mallorca. Watch German TV and most evenings there will be something about the island, even if it's just the weathe...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Seven Drunken Nights

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There has been a thread over on Holiday Truths concerned with the legal age of drinking alcohol and specifically the suggestion that Mallorc...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Stranger In Town

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Alcúdia has more residents of foreign origin than of those born in the Balearics. Of a total population of 20,395, 7,847 come from outside S...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Mother, Mother

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On the forum for thealcudiaguide, there was a question about supermarkets and which fiesta days affect their opening hours. I suggested that...