The Blog: A Cristiano Ronaldo for the Balearics
Will the Balearics have an annual amount to compensate for the negative effects of being islands? What do you think?
Viewpoint: Balearic cruising
“I can´t understand why anyone can be opposed to cruise ships...”
Viewpoint: The students affair
"The inability to prevent has been given a broader and sharper focus as a consequence of what happened."
The Blog: The irritation index and airport growth
What's the problem with the airport expansion?
Confidential: Devon delights and other holiday stuff!
Find out how Frank Leavers is faring on his extended stay in the south of England.
Viewpoint: Being half drunk
"Covid has meant rules, but even so, the government might wish to remember that holidays are meant to be fun."
Viewpoint: The weather
“Northern Europeans come here in search of the good weather...”
Amanda Blog: And finally...
"On Sunday we decided to take it easy since the day before had been so eventful..."
The Blog: This sporting life - tackling seasonality
"They were aware of the issues five years ago. Covid hasn’t made them go away."
Viewpoint: The sustainable mobility challenge
"The town hall seems to have been making a bit of a mess of things."
Viewpoint: Grounded
“I would say that the traffic light system has been a disaster from the start...”
Anna Nicholas: Feral Britain
"You have to watch your back wherever you go now."
Mallorca's person of the week: European recovery funds & the government
Headline-making in the Majorca Daily Bulletin last week.
Viewpoint: A new deal for the future
"The EU may have been talking sausages but Britain and the U.S. were talking nuclear secrets."
Viewpoint: Recovery - Whose recovery?
"But this joyous news, combined with the growth forecasts, cannot disguise the elephants in the room."
Viewpoint: Action!
“The council needs to do something about scooters and bicycles...”
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?
The Blog: Tourism model and the “Benidorm Effect”
Tourism density is said to have a benefit in terms of resources.
Donald Trelford: The 20 wasted years since 9/11
Donald Trelford's thoughts on the US reaction to 9/11.
Viewpoint: Mallorca is love island
Britons may have opted for staycations this year but they are safer in Mallorca!
Viewpoint: Security pact
“I find it rather odd that NATO is not involved in the new security pact...”
Summer Blog: The deafening sound of summer!
Mallorcans nor the Spanish in general, ever do anything quietly do they?
The Blog: Whatever happened to Mallorca’s Club Med?
These two redevelopments tell you everything about where Mallorca’s tourism is heading.
Viewpoint: Destroying Mallorca
Sustainable tourism is the Balearic government’s mantra, I don’t think so.
Viewpoint: Agriculture abandons the fairs
"You wonder why it’s taken them so long"
The Blog: A tourism elite - is that what we really want?
We have of course advanced a long way from the first package holidays of the 1950s...
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?
Viewpoint: Mallorca’s tough summer
Summer is coming to an end and all eyes are on the winter, but is the energy there?
Viewpoint: Masks on beaches
"But there didn’t seem to be much evidence of mask-wearing. In fact, there wasn’t any"
Summer Blog: Doesn’t that really give you a vacation vibe?
Most people I know, who visit Mallorca out of the high season, fall in love with our countryside and mountain landscape.
The Blog: Mallorca’s drunken 39% of tourists
Why is Mallorca more of a paradise for drunken tourists than the rest of the Balearics?
Viewpoint: Changing tourism
“There have been calls for change within the tourist industry....”
Viewpoint: Wrong job in Mallorca
Majorca may have posted record employment figures, sadly they will not last.