The Good Life
Healthy Happy Gardeners
With health services recommending increased intake of fruit and vegetables what better way to do this than to grow your own especially here when we are blessed with such fantastic weather.
The Week In Tourism
Right hand and left hand: the quarantine
The health ministry took everyone off guard by announcing the quarantine, including the tourism ministry.
Food
Get cooking with the American chef in Majorca
Learn to make vegetarian tacos, a quick breakfast with left overs and asparagus, mushroom and egg dinner. Three lessons in one video.
Food For Thought
Who said cooking eggs is easy peasy?
Of someone who isn’t a very good cook, we often say: “He can’t even fry an egg.” But it’s not at all easy to fry an egg properly and just as problematic to boil or scramble one.
My Column
Brainless professors
It’s good to get some laughs during lockdown. It certainly beats the relentless drudgery of the day to day corona news.
Frank Talking
Shame on the lockdown 'grasses', the Groundhog Day effect and Comedic Coppers
Have you ever seen the film Groundhog Day? Well, for many of us we are living that film...
Nautical Notes
Green, brown and red – Balearic seaweeds
We can learn lots about the state of marine ecosystems throughout seaweed.
Food
Get cooking with the American chef in Majorca
Today I show you some of the tricks of making a delicious tasting Paella. Starting off with a good Caldo to a Sofrito. And how to add the finishing touches.
Food & Wine
Summer’s fruits are on their way
The apricot, albaricoque in Spanish and albercoc in Mallorquín, is one of the summer fruits most associated with Majorca.
The Blog
Things We Miss ... Or Don't
A Majorca summer without the daily delivery of their Instagrammed delights and minus the intrusion of the lenses of the paparazzi? Unthinkable for some; a bonus for others.
Did You Know
Words and more..
The Spanish word for being legally bound to stay at home is ‘confinamiento’, which translates neatly into ‘confinement’, an old word that covers this situation.
Food For Thought
Pasta dishes for confinement days
The most satisfying dish I can make in 15 minutes consists of any of the many varieties of imported Italian pasta.
Focus On Cars
The Open Road
It is fascinating to see what petrolheads are up to whilst confined at home.
My Column
Pursued by the Guardia Civil
I will probably get a huge fine, which I suppose I deserve, though I wasn’t likely to infect anyone by driving along the sea-front and returning home.
Gardening
Gardening In Majorca
During the period of the waxing moon, we are told it is time to graft some fruit trees like plums, peaches and almonds, that is to say, those trees that have fruit with large stones as opposed to pips.
My Column
Freedom?
I was confused about the one km radius edict. Did that mean that I’d have to run around in circles for one hour?
Wild Majorca
Behind the scenes with a birdwatching pioneer of Majorca – Part One
This two part special article is a behind the scenes look at the Albufera and the dedicated people that put their hearts into giving us all the memories and pleasures of the Albufera.
Decades of History
We Are The Champions
In the second look back at the Bulletin's almost sixty years, we highlight how sport has been covered in the paper's pages.
Did You Know
Words and more...
In the late 19th century, Trilby wore a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and an indented crown that became known as the trilby.
Andrew Valente13/05/2020 04:01