The Hospital Joan March, in Distress
The Hospital Joan March in Bunyola is in a bit of distress. The hospital is set to be closed any time soon. The Govern Balear has run out of money and, seemingly, out of ideas. Recently it was decreed...
View ArticleAn Early Summer Heat Wave
AEMet, Spain’s Meteorological Institute, has given a weather alert concerning an Ola de Calor, a heat wave. That’s early. The big Summer heat wave normally comes around July 20th, give or take a...
View ArticleSal de Cocó
I may have reported about Sal de Cocó and its benefits before. Sea salt in Mallorca is called Sal de Cocó when it is being collected from the Parque Nacional del Archipiélago de Cabrera and sold in...
View ArticleMountain Olympics at the Barranc de Biniaraix
Whilst the couch potatoes amongst us, including yours truly, were busy watching the London 2012 Olympics on the telly last Sunday, a few hundred Mallorcan men and women (and children and dogs)...
View ArticleFifty Grades of Shade
We have recently been sent a heavy humid heat wave from the African land expanse. The Agencia Estatal de Meteorología has seen itself prompted to issue a Yellow Alert warning of high temperatures for...
View ArticleA Screech, a Bang And a Spin
Last night, having just finished a latish supper, our son was waiting for a friend to arrive. They were ready to go to some verbenas in Montuïri, a pueblo half an hour’s down the road from Felanitx....
View ArticleTill Death Us Do Part
Death comes to all, but now, at a price. The recently announced hike in the rate of Spanish IVA (Value Added Tax) will affect some more than others. School books in Spain, for instance, were taxed,...
View ArticleCool in the Pool
You may be surprised when I tell you that we do not possess a swimming pool. We had guests staying with us the other day, for a week or so. Friends of theirs, who were here on holiday, were aghast to...
View ArticleEx Nicotine
Apologies to all loyal MDPB readers, but due to some medical problems of a rather serious character, there will be a temporary period of no daily blog entries. Even though I had given up smoking 31...
View ArticleGood-Bye to All That
It’s time to say good-bye. After 1,928 daily blog entries between June 10th, 2007, and September 18th, 2012, a serious heart condition caught me unawares whilst on a short trip abroad. I underwent a...
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