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.
Northern Spotlight
Exhibition for the painter who founded the Pollensa 'School'
La Caixa Foundation acquired the Anglada Camarasa collection in 1988.
Northern Spotlight
Can Picafort’s swimming pool - back to its natural state
Santa Margalida town hall plans to create a square with banked terraces surrounding it in the space where the pool once was.
Who spends the most in Majorca?
The Balearics, according to Balearic government numbers, attracted 149,627 foreign tourists in February.
Comment: The feeding of the two million
At the height of summer there can be over two million mouths to be fed and watered at any given time.
Mallorca's person of the week: Will Smith
Plus - cheers for fuel price reduction and boos for insane weather.
And the beach bars of Puerto Alcudia are attracting the Costas interest
According to GOB, these bars do not have authorisation.
The beach bars of Playa de Muro threatened again
Regulations of 2013 apparently demand a distance of 200 metres between beach bars.
Mallorca hotels and prices - don’t forget the costs
What is the business reality of Mallorcan hotels?
Mallorca - tourism resilience and undue pessimism
Is it possible that occupancy will return to what it was in 2019?
Comment: The tobacco spending tourist
In some tabacs there are notices asking customers who wish to make large purchases of tobacco to place an order a day in advance.
Top Events this Thursday and Saturday on the island
The night parties are back - Check out Andrew Ede's top events for this week
Comment: And for those not returning to work?
The special Covid benefits regime for fijo discontinuo employees ends today.
Water into oil and the illusion of self-sufficiency
Can Mallorca reduce his excessive external dependence? What do you think?
What do you do with a 700-year-old royal palace in Mallorca?
What will the bishopric say this time? A definitive solution is needed.
Mallorca's person of the week: Spain's health minister
Plus - cheers for easyJet fares and boos for rubbish weather.
When Pollensa’s heritage ends up in court
A 37-page report requires the entire catalogue to redone file by file.
An old bus station and another cultural centre for Pollensa
How many cultural/social centres, does any one village need?
Of all the daft ideas? The submarine power cable coming to Alcudia
Alcudia town hall, to put it mildly, is horrified at the idea.
Comment
The white palms of Mallorca (and Alicante)
What particularly interested Mallorca’s regal rulers was the white palm, the one which, by then, had become central to the Palm Sunday procession.
Andrew Ede 08/04/2022 12:19