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Has a side-effect of covid been the rediscovery of holiday Britain?
What will the future tourism industry look like? What do you think?
Frank Confidential: October - time to dress like a grown-up: plus, hopeless heels
Please forgive me, but the mixed weather you have been suffering in Mallorca recently has cheered me up no end!
Frank Talking: "You are what you eat" - Oh dear, I hope not!
"For almost ten years I dined at lunchtime on steak & ale pie, chips and peas"
Confidential: Don't panic - Perhaps it's not as bad as it seems!
What's behind the present mad scramble for petrol?
Frank Leavers: As I was saying before i was so rudely interrupted!
Do you know what Frank Leavers finds most annoying about modern life?
Confidential: Devon delights and other holiday stuff!
Find out how Frank Leavers is faring on his extended stay in the south of England.
Frank Talking: Wish you were here! - Come on, do tell, where is that?
It has to be said that Mallorca isn’t so bad either at this time of year, is it?
Summer Blog: The deafening sound of summer!
Mallorcans nor the Spanish in general, ever do anything quietly do they?
Confidential: My family's match of the day - Football or tennis?
What do you think was the most exiting part of Frank Leavers' sporting day?
Frank Talking: Some home thoughts from abroad
Has anyone else noticed that our television screens are nowadays filled with programmes regarding almost all parts of Britain’s countryside and coasts?
Summer Blog: Can you please put yourself away - Thank You!
"I was persuaded to go along to the local swimming Lido - Big mistake!"
Confidential: An Indian summer? Plus - M&S abandon suits and mucky masks!
Why did this improvement in the weather always turn-up just as all the kids went back to school after the long summer break even my childhood?
Frank Talking: Let's get ready to mumble!
Is it true that we Brits still pay much-too-much attention as to how a person speaks?
Summer Blog: Garden centres: Be still my beating heart!
What did garden centres do to Frank Leavers? He visited three different garden centres about ten times in total.
Confidential: Bank Holiday blues - Plus, are men pulling their weight?
Frank Leavers' UK Bank Holiday weekend didn't go as expected.
Frank Leavers: Keeping it in the family!
"I don’t think that we become bad tempered per-se as we get older, do we?"
Frank talking: Has work become redundant?
Frank Leavers coments on the serious shortage of labour in the UK at the moment. Was it as unforeseen as we are told?
Summer Blog: After a day at the beach - the dance of the seven veils!
So my friends, how would you explain this activity to a visiting Martian?
Confidential: Telephone ‘scam’ artists - Plus, noticing the differences between here and there!
"You learn something new everyday don’t you?"
Frank Leavers: Speaking ‘Spanglish’ and other linguistic traumas!
Frank have been displaying some Mallorcan acquired driving habits in southern England...
Summer Blog: Let’s go camping shall we? Thanks, but no thanks!
"What to do? I hate camping, always have, always will"
Confidential - the new normal: ‘Flexible working equals flexible living’ and other challenges
How will we emerge from the current set of social circumstances?
Frank Leavers: This Olympic sporting life and other mysteries!
Has the inclusion of sports in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics gone too far?
Summer Blog: I’m out and about in Blighty!
"We have yet to even start but I fear that the die-is-cast for the rest of the trip already"
Confidential: There's no place like home, wherever you are!
"I have already noticed a good few differences in the way things happen here as opposed to Mallorca."
Frank Leavers: Is it possible to win or lose with good grace, yet still care?
Has sport become soulless? Frank Leavers reflects on the slow death of sporting heroism and unselfishness.
Summer Blog: My gym shame and other embarrassments!
Find out what happened during Frank Leavers' first experience in a gym.
Confidential: More persistent "Pinging" - Plus, an attemted scam
Frank Leavers' return to the UK is not going as he had hoped...
Frank Leavers: Getting hot & bothered and slightly ‘bolshie’ back in Blighty!
"You really can’t go back ‘home’ again and expect it to be the same as it was two decades ago."
Confidential: Britain's "Pingdemic" and my part in its popularity - Plus, driving to Ms Maisie!
What was it like for Frank Leavers to return to the UK after two years?
Frank Leavers: It is decision time - Come on don't procrastinate!
In a persons average lifespan they will spend 2 years dithering over what, or what not to do.
Confidential: As I was saying before i was rudely interrupted!
Frank Leavers experiences the summer in Mallorca
Frank Talking: Pessimism is so passé - so cheer up will you?
Are you a glass half-full person or a glass half-empty person?
Confidential: The worrying world of wine and the protocol of buying a round of drinks!
Frank Leavers presents his guide on how to buy drinks in Mallorca.
Frank Talking: New technology and some embarrassing confessions
Come on, I can’t be alone in this pathetic inability to engage in this sort of stuff can I - surely?
Confidential: Who is coming here on holiday and other interesting stuff!
Which categories of British tourists will make the effort to come to these shores?
Confidential: Is ageing a state of mind? Hey, I do hope so!
Frank Leavers comes face to face with the number XX.
Confidential: The knock-on affects of dirty rain - Plus, travel contradictions continue
Frank leavers on the recent dirty deluge, plus mess of mixed messages.
Frank Talking: Is it time to get-rid? Come on you should try it
The trouble is, this is not as easy as it might seem...
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Would you work from Mallorca while you are on holiday?
Lifestyle
Get the Mallorca Beach App!
The App also has a location map and offers information on toilets, restaurants and disabled access points.
Lifestyle
Bargains of the Day!
Don't miss this fantastic apartment in Puerto Pollensa, more details in today's classified adverts.
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Will you be watching series 5 of The crown?
Weather
Mallorca Weather Forecast for October 17
The weather in Mallorca is changing by the minute this weekend, keep up to date with what it's like all over the island via our live webcams, just click here.
What's on
What's On Sunday 17 and Monday 18 October
Today and tomorrow Llucmajor has it's handicraft fair. Also check the markets and find out what cruise ships are in Palma's port.
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Will you take advantage of the new Palma-New York direct flight next year?
What's on
Films in English for Friday 15 until Thursday 21 October
Find out what superheroe movie is back! If you haven't seen the James Bond film it is still showing this week.
News
Finally, EU softens its stance
This week Donald Trelford talks about when Brexit will be completed, Sally Rooney, William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin.
Lifestyle
The coast dweller and the throat
This week in wild Mallorca: The great autumn migration is underway.
Lifestyle
The questions and answers of the new ‘Humans of Majorca’
Do you want to move to Soller? These are the most asked questions from the latest Solleric incomers.
What's on
Don't miss these top events this week in Mallorca!
These are Andrew Ede's top events that are taking place on Mallorca this week.
News
Spanish love home working
Getting Spaniards back to work after the pandemic is going to prove hard graft.
News
Mallorca coach signs contract extension
Monro Bryce's thoughts on RCD Mallorca's upcoming challenge against Real Sociedad.
Lifestyle
Let’s talk about invasive climbing plants...
Invasive climbing plants seems to pop up just anywhere.
Lifestyle
Autumn events with Save the Med
Stay tuned for all the details which will be published on www.sadragonera.org and @xarxadragonerablava on Instagram very soon!
Lifestyle
Where to eat out on Mallorca this weekend!
Looking for somewhere new to eat?
Kids Zone
Success at Baleares International College, Sant Agustí
Baleares International College, Sant Agustí becomes the first school in Mallorca to be both COBIS compliant and an accredited member of NABSS
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A Marathon Weekend
Eurosport commentator James Parrack on the Mallorca Marathon.
Lifestyle
Life is but a filmset in the Soller Valley
What is life like in the Soller Valley in autumn?
Lifestyle
Start snipping at your garden now
Gardening tips of the week: I mention some of this cutting back and thinning out now because our autumn and then winter winds are sometimes extremely strong and gusty, doing untold damage to trees and shrubs breaking off branches in all the wrong places, even blowing or up-rooting the whole tree.
News
I'm a man - I'm supposed to be annoying!
Do you agree with our columnist Frank Leavers?
News
Now it’s “tourismphobia”, the movie
What happened this week in the tourism sector?
News
Sustainability rains mainly in the plain
Montuiri has become the unofficial tourism capital of sustainable tourism.
Kids Zone
All about me - the nursery children at Queen’s College investigate differences and similarities
It is wonderful to see their confidence grow each day!
News
My Big Fat Potato Wedding
What are the best potatoes you have ever tasted?