21 JULY 2020

Mallorca's airport is booked out with private jets, this is a positive sign for the Island and shows that Mallorca stands out again as the top favorite destination in the Mediterranean.

BOAT TRAVELLING

Travel comfortably with the ship to Mallorca from Spanish mainland or France:

Transmediterranea runs between Palma and Barcelona, between Palma and Ibiza, between Palma and Menorca and between Palma and Valencia. www.trasmediterranea.es 

Balearia goes Palma-Barcelona, Palma-Valencia, Palma-Denia and Alcudia-Cuitadella (Menorca). New this summer is the ferry Palma - La Savina (Formentera). Planned until 20 September. www.balearia.com 

Corsica Ferries run Alcudia-Toulon. www.corsica-ferries.es

Enjoy fish friendly boating with the wooden electro boat “Libervola” built by Marc Balaguer in Portocolom and to be rented in Cala d’Or. The electric engine runs 20 hours with 3 to 4 knots without exhaust from petrol or diesel engine. The boat has a sunroof, a ladder to get easy in and out of the water, seat that can be lowered to a lawn. Up to 5 people fit on the 4,56 m long boat. No license necessary. For half a day they charge from November to March Euro 84,70 Euro, in April, May, September and October Euro 133,10 and June to 30 August Euro 290,40, www.eboats.es. Marc Belaguer also rents a self-built 4,99 m sailing boat style Mallorcan Llaut.

The sailing club in the harbor Portals Nous offers a new sports program Activa-t (become active) for all age- and performance groups in Pilates on a paddleboard. If you never did Pilates or paddling before you can join the morning sport with water gymnastic and a functional work out on the beach. The SUP Pilates course is offered Tuesday and Thursday at 08.45 for Euro 15/hr. In the evenings and on weekends they do excursions with the kayak or the SUP. Reservation is recommended: escuelapuertoportals.com

 EVENTS 

Port Adriano MusicFestival is presented from 31 July to 5 September with the Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral (8. August). He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 and introduces now his third album “Alma Nuestra”.  The star violinist Ara Malikian plays on 1. August, the famous Flamenco singer Diego el Cigala sings on 23 August. The opening on 31 July is with the Pop Band Hombres G from Madrid, followed by representatives of the Spanish music scene like the singer Antonio Jose from Cordoba (22 August), Silvia Perez Cruz with the pianist Marco Mezquida from Menorca (28 August), Pablo Lopez from Malaga, playing the program “piano y voz” (29 August), the successful band Los Secretos (5 September). Additional are comedy shows from Carlos Latre (15 August), known from Spanish TV and El Comandante Lara & Cia (21 August). Portadriano.com/musicfestival.

Mallorca Jazz Sa Pobla attracts with the headliner Chano Dominguez, the well known pianist and Flamenco Jazz pioneer from Cadiz playing on 11 August with his trio - bass player Horacio Fumero and drummer David Xirgu. The opening on 28 July is with the “Canvas Project” around Pere Davila, quintet with the musicians Jimmy Weinstein, Marko Lohikari, Xema Borras and Josep Sastre. On 4 August on stage is Highlands Project one of the most famous jazz bands on the island. The duo Julia Colom & Toni Vaquer perform on 18 August with a repertoire of the traditional music from Mallorca. The Blues Beer Band plays on 25 August. Info: sapobla.cat, tickets: ticketib.com

SPORT ACTIVITIES

For the first time, the education program Mallorca Dive Camp is offered in the Club Nautic in Arenal in July and August. Children and youngsters between 8 and 17 can get to know the under water world on the coast of Mallorca. In July, in the morning, snorkel courses are offered together with information about the biology of the sea and the different kind of fish. In the afternoon they go snorkeling in the bay of Palma. In August they teach diving with compressed air bottles, explaining different kind of under water world and taking pictures. Https.://formenteradivecamp.com/mallorca/

Children’s theatre with music, dance, theatre and more in the culture center Es Gremi in Carrer Gremi de Porgadors 16 in Palma until September for children from 3 to 12 years. In the so-called Summer Camp Festival they teach theatre- and dance pieces and musicals. Price per week 130 Euro, incl food, possible as well in English. Tel or whatapp: 655 614012 or ola@esraconet.es

Sport for free: 

Directly beside the stadium SonMoix are 6 basketball fields and a small football field. Passing the Cafeteria next to the skate park, the town put up poles for cross fit. Sunday afternoons closed.

The big Sa Riera Park close to the ring motorway has the most beautiful football ground. The artificial lawn is new. 2 Volleyball fields, basketball players have to share one field. Along a running lane fitness equipment is put up. Open until midnight from April on, in winter closes at 22.00.

Behind the library in Carrer de Joan Alcover 28, Palma is a basketball field, run by the cultural center. Open Monday to Friday from 09.30 to 13.30 and 16.30 to 21.00.

In the ParqueSesSorts in the city quarter Es Rafal Vell in Palma is an outdoor fitness studio for beginners. Pretty idyllic laid out park, fairly without people. Only the close-by motorway could disturb a little bit.

The British inhabitant BenMiles (son of the owner of the show stage Son Amar) is represented in the Guinness Book of Records for cycling 12 days on a home trainer. Every hour he stopped for 5 minutes. Proud to have it done but – he said – he will never do it again. It’s too demanding for the body. Ben wanted to draw attention to environment protection.

GASTRONOMY

Only with your hands you find the right maturity level for a melon. Clap with the flat hand on the fruit. When it’s vibrating, it’s perfect. If you clap on the melon you should here an echo. And the yellow spot on which the melon was laying on the field is a sign. The more yellow the spot, the riper is the fruit. Is the spot greyish, the melon is not ready yet and will not be ripe anymore because once picked melons don’t ripe.

Excellent simple and with a lot of love is the slogan of the starchef Adrian Quetglas who opened his restaurant “Dmenu” in Palma again but only for lunch and on working days. The food tastes sensational: for example creamy rice with sweet corn, ox tail and chili sauce as starter, filet of negrito (black dogfish) with alga-potato-parmentier or the pork filet on peanut sauce with peanut crumbs and plum compote. Dessert could be smoked pineapple with coco-ginger-cream. Placa de Sant Antoni 17, Tel.: 971 460455, FB: Dmenu.

Simply excellent is the restaurant “Andana” in Palma of female star chef Maca de Castro. Since the opening, the restaurant developed to a popular place, mainly visited by Mallorcans; an attractive combination of beautifully designed restaurant with terrace and affordable, partly very local dishes. Try scramble bio egg with tumbet vegetables (pepper, egg plant, tomato sauce) and fried potatoes or roasted eggplant halves covered with tahini sauce and a small chopped mix of tomato, coriander, thyme and lemon. Farmer’s salad with different vegetable, dried fish from Formentera and boiled egg. Star butcher Xesc Reina Home does home made sausages from the meat of the black pig, steamed instead of fried, served in a brioche hotdog bread roll with red cabbage-sauerkraut and onion sauce. Very tasty is the chickpea dish with rabbit and snails, served in a paella pan or the cocas with tomato, onion or spinach. Classical dishes like suckling pig, lamb leg or ox filet tartar with wines from Mallorca or the Mainland. Placa d’Espana 6, Tel.: 971 100201, www.andanapalma.es

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Spring greetings,

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