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Coming of age: Historias del Barrio

Pl. Quartera, Palma

A wide starry sky over an orange grove, in the middle of it a red convertible. The radio plays “Golden Brown” by the Stranglers. Three city kids, none of them 18 years old yet, got lost in the Mallorcan countryside. At the end of the joyride with a cabriolet stolen at the underground garage of Plaza Coll they are confronted with their own loneliness and disorientation. That’s just one of the stories from Gabriel Beltrán’s Historias del Barrio that deeply touched me.   In his graphic memoir…

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All aboard: El Tren de Sóller

El Tren de Sóller

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack – it’s the sound of a train in an old black and white film. But the setting is extremely colorful. Summer landscape is flying past the train windows while the mountains of the Tramuntana are luring in the background. More than one hundred years ago, the historic railroad connected Palma and Sóller. Until then, the two cities had only been accessible via the pass or by boat. Today the train itself is a reason to travel, the way is the goal. And of course, el tren…