And no, I’m not referring to the inflatable version in the supermarket.  I’m talking the real deal, the enormous mad-eyed ugly mother of a thing.
Or am I?  And this is the question I would like …

An estimated 4500 people were in El Toro over the weekend for the annual ‘Las Fallas’ celebrations.  The intrepid Essential Mallorca team were in attendance yesterday, braving the March sunshine, paella mountains and enforced beer …

Award winning Scottish band Franz Ferdinand will play this year’s Alternatilla Music Festival it has been confirmed.
They join an impressive line up that also includes former Velvet Underground lead man, Lou Reed.  Reed, and his …

The sight of snow falling in Mallorca (in March) is pretty shocking I would admit.  It is simply not something you expect.  But in terms of the impact it had, well it was nothing more …

If there is one thing guaranteed to make you choke on your cornflakes, it is looking out of your kitchen window on a March morning in Mallorca to see the air full of snow.  It …

One of the more noteworthy events to take place on the island this month is the 6th annual Mallorca International Classic Car Rally (Rally Clasico Isla Mallorca).
The three day event attracts rally and motoring enthusiasts …

A story in the Daily Bulletin has caught my eye.  It concerns an arson attack on a car in El Toro yesterday morning.  The owner of the car, British expat Phillip Burgess, claims this is …

So as Mallorca approaches the beginning of the 2010 summer season, we briefly enter what is officially now known as ‘silly season’.
This is the time of year when every local newspaper worth mentioning …