14 June 2025
Two drownings in Mallorca on Saturday
A third person was saved.Two men drowned at beaches in Mallorca on Saturday.The first was at Son Moll beach, Cala Rajada and occurred around 1.20pm. Lifeguards took a 69-year-old man out of the sea and attempted to resuscitate him. He had been seen floating face down. Medics arrived but were only ab
14 June 2025
Sunday weather in Mallorca - Another hot day
Hit 100F in old money on Saturday.The amber alerts for high temperatures on Sunday in the south and the interior have been downgraded to yellow. The yellow alerts for the Tramuntana and the north/northeast are as were. All the alerts are effective from 12 noon to 7pm; possibly up to 38C in the south
14 June 2025
Attempted murder charge after setting fire to a shanty in Mallorca
The man's girlfriend was asleep in the shanty.The National Police report having arrested a 33-year-old Spanish man who set fire to a shanty where his girlfriend was sleeping.The incident occurred in Manacor in the early hours of last Wednesday. There was a call to the National Police emergency line
14 June 2025
Protesters halt a Palma sightseeing bus
To publicise Sunday's protest demanding a better life and an end to touristification.Members of the Menys Turisme Més Vida (Less Tourism More Life) platform brought a Palma sightseeing bus to a halt on Saturday morning when they staged an action designed to publicise the Sunday rally in Palma to dem
14 June 2025
Beautiful Mallorca village home to Spain’s biggest earners
Valldemossa continues to be Balearics wealthiest municipalityThe Mallorcan municipality of Valldemossa is among the ten municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants with the highest gross income per capita, according to the web tool “Socio-economic data sheets” of the General Council of Economist
14 June 2025
Conor McGregor shows off 550,000 euro car in Mallorca
Conor McGregor remains faithful to his holidays in Mallorca. On Thursday, the famous Irish fighter shared images of his stay in Port Adriano on his Instagram account, showing off his spectacular vehicle for enjoying the island: a purple Ferrari SF90 valued at over 550,000 euros. The former UFC champ
14 June 2025
Mysterious animal found in the waters off Mallorca
A peculiar marine discovery has surprised scientists in Mallorca. Last Friday, biologist Gádor Muntaner and paramotor pilot César Canudas discovered a specimen of “blue dragon” while sailing off the north-west coast of the island. This rare mollusc, known scientifically as glaucus atlanticus, repres
14 June 2025
“Mallorca’s music industry has grown so much over the years, now it’s all here”
“There’s no longer that burning need to travel to work, it can be done here on this little island. The rest of the music industry around the world is getting to know that, as Mallorca’s image in the visual and music industries grows, this can only benefit Mallorca moving forward.”Ever since Albie Da
14 June 2025
Mallorca at the centre of the corruption scandal rocking the Spanish Government
The Partido Popular government in the Balearics says the islands were at "the epicentre of a criminal plot".The Guardia Civil's Central Operational Unit (UCO) is finalising a second line of investigation into the so-called 'caso Mascarillas' (masks case), which relates to public contracts for the pu
13 June 2025
Saturday weather in Mallorca - Amber heat alerts for the weekend
Hazy skies because of dust in the atmosphere.The met agency having suggested that temperatures would peak on Saturday has now issued amber alerts for Sunday.Heat alerts issued for Friday were revised to yellow in the south and the Tramuntana; there was previously an alert for the interior. For Satur
13 June 2025
British government travel alert
With millions of Britons set to fly abroad to destinations like Mallorca for their summer holidays, His Majesty’s Passport Office issued an alert today: “Did you know that some countries require your passport to be valid for several months after your scheduled return date? Check your passport expiry
13 June 2025
Rock bottom! British citizens can't even spend more than 90 days in Gibraltar!
Spanish officials will have the power to deny entry to British citizens.It is a familiar story for non-resident British citizens in Mallorca and the rest of the European Union; you can only spend 180 days here in two batches of 90 days. It has caused many problems but British citizens were keeping t
13 June 2025
Airbnb hits back at hotels and claims they are responsible for tourism overcrowding
Airbnb today called on city leaders in the European Union's ten most visited cities to address the overwhelming impact of hotels as a driver of mass tourism. Their call came as Palma prepared for the latest anti-tourism protest with Mallorcan hoteliers blaming Airbnb for much of the tourist overcrow
13 June 2025
Joan Bennàssar’s Utopia: A Mediterranean Vision of Art, Memory and Hope
Joan Bennàssar is a Mallorcan painter and sculptor whose work blends primal expression with classical elegance and avant-garde daring. Deeply rooted in Mediterranean culture, his art is guided by instinct, celebrating imperfection as a core element of human and artistic greatness. His latest exhibit
13 June 2025
Outrage at Cala Ratjada Spanish student publicity and in Alcudia
For Capdepera Town Hall, there is promotion of 'tourism of excesses'; its lawyers are looking into the matter."We've reinvented the concept of a trip to Mallorca. We don't include one, two, or three festivals... the entire trip itself is a pure festival with different stages. You won't experience an
13 June 2025
Fines of up to €30,000 for breaking new Mallorca vehicle regulations
A tax will be applied to vehicles that are not registered in the Balearics, and the island council will set, on an annual or biannual basis, the maximum number of vehicles that may enter the island.The draft bill to regulate vehicle entry in Mallorca, which the Council of Mallorca is currently worki
13 June 2025
Weather warning: it’s red hot in Mallorca
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has forecast that this weekend in the Balearics will be the hottest so far this year, with temperatures reaching 39 degrees on Saturday in Mallorca and 36 to 37 degrees on the other islands. Over the next three days, the sky will be mostly clear, with some hig
13 June 2025
Record crowds in Son Moix last season
After a week where I watched an interview with the president of the Royal Horticultural Society in the UK – he has a very appropriate name : Keith Weed! – Real Mallorca’s Basque coach Jagoba Arrasate completed a year in charge last Tuesday. To say he’s had a turbulent 12 months would be an understat
13 June 2025
Please remind me how Mallorca made its fortune
Some of Spain, if not Europe’s wealthiest people are Mallorcan and they’ve made their multi millions out of tourism, foreign tourism.This week, while the Balearic parliament argued on about curing the ills of tourism, the Balearic Minister for Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, described
13 June 2025
Welcome to Mallorca, Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis!
One of Hollywood's greatest directors and one of Hollywood's greatest actors joined forces this week in Mallorca for a cruise around the island visiting some of Mallorca's beauty spots. The arrival of Spielberg's 250 million dollar superyacht, Seven Seas, in Mallorcan waters led rise to rumours that
13 June 2025
Affordable Housing Can’t Wait
The season is underway, and the work is intense. The rumbles under the surface continue and erupt into news. The articulate young of Soller penned a message from their perspective, which was spot on. Whatever the reasons for the decisions of the past it has left 2025 looking scary.Young local people
13 June 2025
Don’t forget, you are welcome in Mallorca
Remember that the protest has more to do with property prices than tourism.Ahead of the anti-tourism demonstration on Sunday, I would just like to say one thing. Tourists are more than welcome on this island and at the end of the day we are talking about a very small minority of people who are not a
13 June 2025
Doctors strike in the Balearics: Only go to health centres if "strictly necessary"
The one-day strike is a protest against proposed new regulations for the medical profession.The doctors' college in the Balearics (Comib) and the Simebal medical union have asked the public to only go to health centres and hospitals on Friday in cases of strict necessity. Doctors are staging a one-d
13 June 2025
Fine for harassment of the president of a community of owners
A Danish citizen has been fined 720 euros by a Palma court for the harassment of the president and administrator of a community of owners over a several-year period. He pleaded guilty and will also have to pay compensation of 1,000 euros to both the president and the administrator.He admitted that f