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My Big Fat Potato Wedding

What are the best potatoes you have ever tasted?

They are all hermetically sealed in indestructible, impenetrable cellophane!

Out and About: It’s a Wrap!

Do manufacturers these days deliberately encase their products in super-tight plastic wraps which virtually defy access?

Cracked almond kernels in their raw state can be brought at local markets, and are often traded or given as gifts.

Out and About: Whacked, Cracked and Sacked

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The almond tree is the first of Mallorca’s deciduous trees to flower.

Out and About: It’s Offaly Nice!

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"Someone recently asked me, what was the one thing that shouts to me, Mallorca?"

"The best breakfast I have ever had in my life was in Las Vegas"

Out and About: Best breakfast ever

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Discover Peter Clover's fabulous and extraordinary 5 day break to Las Vegas!

"The aesthetically challenged should really think twice before donning the flighty and the flimsy"

Out and About: Summer Sizzlers & Stingers

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"The aesthetically challenged should really think twice before donning the flighty and the flimsy"

Peter Clover on the summer holiday experience in Mallorca: what can you expect?

Summer Blog: The Heat is On...

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Peter Clover on the summer holiday experience on Mallorca -What can you expect?

The coffee also has a lot to do with it.

Out and About: Mallorcan Café Culture

Why is it different to have a coffee in Mallorca or in the UK?

One of the simplest of all the fig dishes

Out and About: A Fig for All Seasons

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How to live the "Mallorcan dream" with a fig orchard.

Out and About: Passport to Freedom

Renewing your passport online - How difficult can it be?

Out and About: Getting Back to Normality?

Why can’t we just all move forward with sensible caution?

Mallorcans like nothing better than foraging for their traditional delicacies.

Out and About: Seriously Slow Food

Peter Clover shares his first experience tasting a local delicacy: Snails!!!

Out and About: A Tale of Two Sitios

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Peter Clover's own experiences of how the vaccination "system" works in Mallorca.

Out and About: Rice ‘n’ Easy Does It!

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Our Columnist Peter Clover gives us his experience trying to make a traditional Mallorcan Dessert with pints.

Out and About: Break out the Barbie

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Peter Clover warns us to be ready for the return of the UK's most anticipated pastime.

Shine a Light

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Apart from the regular onslaught of cyclists, we are remotely visited by outsiders.

Several people from Germany, after the plane they were travelling in landed at Palma airport.

Too much, too soon?

The Mallorcans are quite capable themselves of driving numbers up without help from outsiders!

Walking Back to Happiness . . .

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What we don’t want is our imminent future to be compromised by the actions of a steadily growing minority.

the mysterious and magical world of technology.

Mr Fixits

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‘If you can afford to have something fixed, then don’t stress about it for a second, just pay a man who can’.

Text predictor on your cell-phone also provides some original smiley moments.

People Say The Funniest Things

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Columnist Peter Clover shares with us some of his funniest experiences.

Out and about: Look for the silver lining

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Peter Clover tries to put a smile on people’s faces by offering a moments escape from the gloom.

Last year when Spain was in lockdown and we could only go out on our balconies.

So, what to do? Although the regulations aren’t currently as limiting as they were back in March 2020 when we were completely confined to the homestead, we are once again being encouraged to ‘STAY HOME’.

New Years Resolutions

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These digital days, with the advent of social media, it has become almost compulsory to post your intention of resolution on the internet.

Sopa de Galets, large, shell shaped pasta stuffed with spiced mincemeat and served in a broth.

Christmas in Mallorca

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Whatever your choices this Christmas, please be ultra careful, think twice, and have a Very Safe Celebration whatever you decide to do.

I Should Have Gone to Specsavers

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Peter Clover: "We thought we would do an early Christmas shopping and trying to do normal things."

Winner winner chicken dinner

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Peter Clover shares the recipe of how to make "the best chicken risotto EVER".

Take a walk on the wild side

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It’s OUR countryside too! So can’t we just share it sensibly and respectfully?

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Trending tomatoes

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Our columnist Peter Clover shares with us a delish tomato soup and a broccoli pesto recipe!

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Some Things Never Change

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With people limiting their socializing the town has been even quieter than usual.

Fairs and fiestas

Look to the Rainbow

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It has just been announced that this years Dijous Bo, the largest, busiest and most popular fiesta on the entire island, has been cancelled.

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Never say die

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This past summer we made a killer list of all those favourite things we used to do.

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For the Love of Lemons

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Lemons Tips

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The Masked Avenger

It seems that with all the information circulating as to how this virus spreads, cyclists seem to tick a lot of those boxes, so why no masks? And why are they allowed to travel so freely around the island? Perhaps something the government needs to address?

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People walking wearing face masks in the Plaza Major in Palma.

Masking the Situation

Admittedly, every aspect of our lives has changed irrefutably, and we all yearn for a miracle return to how things were before.

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Too Many Too Soon?

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I love Majorca wholeheartedly. To me, the island has always been like a naughty child that is constantly full of surprises.

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Trending tapas

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Variadas are considered the queen of tapas by many here on the island.

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The San Joan Fiesta, the first and possibly most looked forward to fiesta of the season.

A Fool’s Paradise

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This time last year, our village of Mancor de la Vall was also enjoying its boisterous San Joan Fiesta...

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The Thief of Time

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My ultimate star in lockdown has got to be the most ‘to die for’ gingernuts, which I now make, following a recipe I’ve had for 25 years and never got round to baking before.

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