Andrew Ede

1 week ago | majorcadailybulletin.com | Andrew Ede

First it was Soller, now it's Santanyi. An Instagram account - @welcome.to.santanyiland - has used AI in creating images and messages that denounce overtourism and its impacts. Excessive tourism is turning Santanyi into a theme park, individual messages saying, for example, "I used to be able to sit down and have a coffee", "I used to come to the square to shop", "We used to be able to park". The images show crowded terraces and an elderly woman surrounded by tourists.

1 week ago | majorcadailybulletin.com | Andrew Ede

Cycling tourism is significant in March. | Pilar Pellicer The March tourism figures, published on Monday by the National Statistics Institute, show that tourism in the Balearics rose by 0.34% compared with March 2024 and in Mallorca specifically by 1.4%. The total number of tourists in the Balearics was 645,199; in Mallorca 555,276. The two main markets, as is always the case in March, were German and Spanish.

1 week ago | majorcadailybulletin.com | Andrew Ede

The forecast is for cloud, rain and thunderstorms for Tuesday morning, with some improvement later in the day. Aemet notes that there will be "atmospheric instability" from midnight Monday. There are no alerts for bad weather. The outlook for the week continues to be rather unsettled with rain possible every day. Weather stations at present suggest there will be thunderstorms on Thursday evening.

1 week ago | majorcadailybulletin.com | Andrew Ede

The Catalan painter and author Santiago Rusiñol holds a very special place in Mallorca’s history. One reason for this was that he, perhaps more than any other artist, made the island the haven for painters that it became in the early twentieth century. With the artists came those of a literary tradition as well as the unconventional. Rusiñol was himself part of the bohemian set that included the likes of the American writer Gertrude Stein who colonised the then Palma suburb of El Terreno.

1 week ago | majorcadailybulletin.com | Andrew Ede

The Balearic High Court has upheld a fine of 60,000 euros that was handed to a shopkeeper in Arenal for breach of the tourism of excesses decree. The decree, which was introduced in January 2020, established that shops in the resorts that the decree referred to were prohibited from selling alcohol between 9.30pm and 8am. One night in July 2020, Palma Police found that the shop in question was selling alcohol at 12.45pm. The fine was subsequently imposed. This was challenged in the courts.