Andrew Ede
Background in business publishing. Started an online blog about Mallorca in 2005, which went daily in 2007, covering culture, environment, history, politics, tourism and more. Became a regular contributor to the Bulletin in 2010 before joining the staff a few years later.
The Blog: Motoring life in the slow lane
High summer is here, and it is not like last summer. The roads are busier.
Viewpoint: When the Covid map turns red
Balearic measures were all about “saving the season”.
The Blog: There are types of tourist, and there are types
What to do with the type of tourism that doesn't benefit the image of the island?? What do you think?
Viewpoint: On Covid message
The messages become predictable. As predictable as the situations they refer to.
Enjoy Mallorca: Alcudia, Sant Jaume and the disappearance of a settlement
What happened to Guinyent? Why did it disappear?
Viewpoint: The cowards of abuse
Online in its various forms has bred and reinforced harassment, intimidation and the cowardice.
Spotlight North: The anti-mayor poster of Santa Margalida
The Workers Front claimed that the fines were dished out for political reasons
Spotlight North: Municipal workers taking Pollensa town hall to court
Lorena Luque had, said the union back in March, suffered “discriminatory and humiliating” conditions
Spotlight North: Bussing the workers into Alcudia Bay
Great excitement in Sa Pobla, Muro and Inca on Tuesday.
Spotlight North: All’s well for Alcudia’s Spanish students
Viajes Finalia which organises the Mallorca Island Festival student trips to Bellevue, issued a statement...
Spotlight North: Another week, and it’s Puerto Pollensa’s beaches
Summer had finally arrived at Puerto Pollensa and Cala Sant Vicenç beaches.
Viewpoint: Abandoning responsibility
Why else would there be a shift in focus to hospital response capacity?
The week in tourism: Listening to the hoteliers
Are Mallorcan hoteliers the ones who run the tourism industry in the Balearics?
Viewpoint: Radicalised and on the streets?
One profile was radicalised as a sympathiser of Islamic State.
The Blog: Controlling the “botellón”
Could opening up the nightlife industry stop the contagion? What do you think?
Viewpoint: The rising incidence
Spain’s health ministry has flagged up the possibility of reintroducing curfews.
Viewpoint: Tourism living with Covid?
Is it now about having to learn to live with Covid, as Boris Johnson would say?
Viewpoint: Policing Magalluf
Over the years, there have been plenty of calls for more police in Magalluf.
Spotlight North: Safe beaches in Alcudia
Spain’s Institute for Touristic Quality was handing out its flags for beaches earlier this week
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
- Mallorca needs to remember price is king
Coronavirus news
The Blog: An even more alarming state of alarm
Had the government seemingly confined us all illegally?
Andrew Ede 16/07/2021 11:55