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Outdoors

Sleeping beauty: Winter on Mallorca

Almond blossom season on Mallorca

February on Mallorca is always a miracle to me. The air is still crisp, the sky deep blue and the silhouette of the Tramuntana clear cut on the horizon. The Mediterranean sea that has been rough from the Northern winds is reflecting the low sun like a mirror. Yellow and white florets sprinkle the new green. And all of a sudden the buds on bare branched trees explode into gorgeous blossoms. Almond blossom season is starting again.  At the beginning of the year Mallorca is like a sleeping beauty…

People

Café con Rosi Andrade: It’s all about people

Rosi Andrade

Rosi Andrade, owner of a guesthouse in Caimari and teacher of Spanish as a foreign language, about the adventure of learning and her trick with the salt shaker. Most of us associate learning a foreign language with cramming vocabulary and grammar. But it doesn’t work that way, only. The much more exciting part is learning about the culture, customs and routines of the people who speak the language. And actually getting to know them. Spanish teacher Rosi Andrade inspires students with passion…

Food

Comeback: Katarsis

Katarsis

On my way back from Algaida to Palma I had passed the location many times by bike. But it was only when Raúl García opened his restaurant Katarsis there recently that I stopped to have lunch. I already knew Raúl’s extraordinary cooking skills…