Andrew Ede
Background in business publishing. Started an online blog about Mallorca in 2005, which went daily in 2007, covering culture, environment, history, politics, tourism and more. Became a regular contributor to the Bulletin in 2010 before joining the staff a few years later.
The Week in Tourism
Rethinking the UK quarantine
This revisits the UK quarantine decision and is of the view that it was a political matter and not a scientific one.
The Blog
Letizia and that bag
Away from Majorca, the media was full of praise for the Queen, and the fashion pages lapped up the images of her with what was being described as her “favourite” bag.
The Blog
The Council presents ... a low-key observatory
The observatory will be an “important” tool for “positioning Majorca as a sustainable, safe and modern destination and one of quality”.
Enjoying Majorca
Saints, plagues and the last of the summer melon
Vilafranca’s melon fest, which also features a contest to judge the largest melons, doesn’t have any saintly connotations.
The Blog
Rip it Up and start again?
There are certain politicians whose crisis can only have been bad. The Balearic finance minister, Rosario Sánchez, is one.
Lifestyle
What's on in Majorca 25-30 August
Mallorca Live Festival continues in Magalluf; final concerts for the Pollensa and Sa Pobla festivals; more concerts for the Port Adriano season. Just some of this week's events.
Northern Spotlight
Controlling beach capacities
This week in the North of the island more on beach closures, water problems in Playa de Muro and Puerto Pollensa, communications in Pollensa, the circus in Alcudia and list of events taking place this weekend and next week.
The Week In Tourism
Where’s the international leadership for tourism?
“In these uncertain times, citizens around the world need strong, clear and consistent messages”.
Viewpoint
Now it’s the Canaries
The call in the Canaries is once more for “clear and specific measures”, such as testing travellers at origin and on arrival.
The Blog
Camping: the missing part of the mix
Camping can coexist with hotels in Catalonia, but not here.
The Blog
The long hot summer’s just passed us by
There have to be some answers. Real leadership is required. Not sad faces and mere safe corridor default.
Northern Spotlight
Covid panic and false information
False news and crowding of beaches, murky water in Puerto Pollensa, Justice of the Peace saga, messages from Can Picafort, health centre closed in Santa Margalida and What's on in the north are this week's news from the north of the island.
The Week in Tourism
Selling safety
The number of active coronavirus cases in the Balearics now being registered is on a par with with the number in the dark days of early lockdown.
Viewpoint
Smoke and mirrors
I suspect that we are about to be presented with yet more assertions to do with misleading information - that conjured up by governments to hide the truths of Covid.
The Blog
Removing communism: the past lives on
In Spain, the PSOE government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from 2004 to 2011 introduced the law of historical memory, an aspect of which was the removal of Francoist symbols.
Viewpoint
Cosmetic exercises
Magalluf is part of the island's heritage, and there are toponymic studies to highlight this.
The Blog
Another eighteen million down the drain
Playa de Palma, the marketing dream of the sixties, has once more been exposed as an institutional nightmare.
Viewpoint
Penalising town halls
It is generous of the government to pay the interest, but what interest will there be if bank deposits are raided?
Viewpoint
Safe travel
Masks were being worn, but social distancing was generally conspicuous by its absence.
Andrew Ede 26/08/2020 12:51