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The lobster season lasts for four months; it has something in common with the tourist season, as is now being claimed. Following the cuttlef...

So there I was, thinking that maybe I'd do something about it being the fourth of July, as in making the observation that there aren...

Strolling along the prom, the brass bands playing tiddly-om-pom-pom. Funnily enough, you do get brass bands, sort of, on the proms. During f...

There are probably those who live away from Mallorca who think enviously of those who do live on the island and of their heading off to the ...

The fiesta season is in full swing. It is reassuring that elements of Mallorca's traditions, like the fiestas, are in such rude health, ...

"Real steak." Not real as in a Spanish football club, but real as in "real" - genuine, authentic, English. When is real ...

The St George flags have been taken down. Like a period of official mourning, the flags have not just been lowered, they have been interred,...

Alcúdia friendly, so it was said on 16 June. It's not the only resort in Mallorca that is friendly and not the only resort where tourist...

Now here, you might think, would be something that would send tremors coursing through the shaky old bones of the Puerto Pollensa indignant....

On 11 June last year (It Doesn't Add Up), I wrote a piece about Cala San Vicente. It started with a quote from someone who was staying a...

My original business mentor was my first boss, as in the owner of the first company I worked for after university. He was a hard task master...

Football on holiday. There is this thing that baffles me slightly. Chanting support for our boys. In bars. Outside bars. Does it somehow per...

The car-rental situation continues to cause the occasional apoplexy and disgusted of Tunbridge Wells letters to you know what. And if one is...

The Spanish Congress has today passed unanimously the law that will ban smoking in public places, such as bars and restaurants. The ban is d...

The San Pedro (Sant Pere / Saint Peter) fiestas kick off in Puerto Alcúdia tomorrow. The programme has a familiar feel to it - giants dancin...

Mallorca claims second spot in tourist satisfaction with sun and beach destinations. Only the Caribbean beats it. This is one of the finding...

The central and regional governments and the three combined municipalities of Alcúdia, Muro and Santa Margalida are due to chip in a third e...

Sunwing, the all-Scandinavian hotel and apartment complex, is not far off being full. So I was told yesterday. With its location, right on t...

Money off, money off! The question is, is price the most important thing? To read all the gripes and anecdotes, you would think that it is. ...

Oh dear. How the mighty fall. There will doubtless be some (expats) who have delighted in Spain's defeat. I have never felt badly toward...