On Friday evening some fifty or so people took part in a 'Marxa Guiri' in Palma, a prelude to the protest against mass tourism that is scheduled for July 21; "guiri" is a colloquialism to refer to a foreign tourist.
On Friday evening some fifty or so people took part in a 'Marxa Guiri' in Palma, a prelude to the protest against mass tourism that is scheduled for July 21; "guiri" is a colloquialism to refer to a foreign tourist.
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These people forget that they grew rich from tourists
Socks and sandals! The greatest fashion crime of the century. Almost exclusively a combo favoured by Brits and Germans. Hilariously horrendous!
KimIts a common mistake I notice more and more as time passes. Fifty years ago like its many generations past in some dimly recorded neanderthal pre-history. Well I arrived 50 years ago ( next year to be exact ) . Arenal and Playa de Palma were buzzing. Palma Nova, Magaluf and Sta Ponsa likewise. Puerto Pollensa still had its share of old colonials, retired from India or somewhere else hot so they couldn't stomach UK weather. Palma was less crowded and you could actually drive into the old town but it was a thriving city. Yes the roads were much worse, narrower and bumpy, especially on a motorbike. European Union money sorted them out. It was the end of the Franco era and modernisation and workers unions were taking hold. The end of La Isla de la Calma . Burros and donkeys could still be seen in the fields pulling a cart or a farm implement but as those animals died they were replaced by tractors or rotovators. The local young were abandoning their family country houses and heading for shiny new apartments in the city. Sex drugs and rock and roll abounded. Foreigners starting buying those abandoned houses and fincas for ridiculously cheap prices which then started their ever faster upward climb. Hendrix and The Animals had been and gone from Terreno. Errol Flynn was a distant memory. The Club de Mar , sitting at the end of a not long built Paseo Maritimo was new shiny and full of expensive yachts. I went to Palma last week. I sat in a queue on the ring road going in and I sat in a queue on the ring road going out, plenty of time to think - Yes of course they want it to be fifty years ago, when the island had everything you could wish for except overcrowding and traffic jams.
Dressing up as tourists? How stupid can they get?
They must want the return of 50 years ago when Spain had nothing. No roads, minimal shops.
They should add local politicians to their targets as they are the most to blame