EDITION 22
AROUND THE ISLAND
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HEADS UP FIESTA LOVERS, HERE COME SOME BIG ONES!
11.5.08 Europe Day
Palmanova Beach Front – Live music, stalls, fun and games from Luna Radio and One Mallorca www.calvia.com
11.5.08 The Soller Moors & Christians fiesta
Local residents report that it is rip-roaring fun, complete with mock hangings (really!).
23.6.08 Son Joan
Night concerts and bonfires all around Mallorca. Make sure you jump over a candle!
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“It is precisely the possibility of realising a dream that makes life interesting” Paulo Coelho
The delightful Trudi Pascal and Alessandra Valentini launched their business, Pascal Properties with an office-warming party. Well attended, and well catered (always the sign of a good party in the 1M’s book) we wish them all the best with their new estate agency venture. Any estate agent who quotes the legendary writer Paulo Coelho on their website is okay with us!
You can view their stable of properties at www.pp-mallorca.com or call them on 971 228 103.
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Recently the team from the Foreign Residents Department in Calvia Town hall organised another of their forums for ex-pats to learn more about the area in which they live. The event was held at the Ponent Mar hotel in Palmanova and well over 150 people attended. There was a presentation by staff of Marineland on the sea-life of the waters surrounding Mallorca, an explanation of the sporting facilities available to residents in the area and a free seafood buffet. Deputy Mayor of Calvia, Kate Mentink, was delighted with the number of people who attended the event, which was publicised by Luna 100.3 FM and One Mallorca Magazine.
Her team in the town hall, Angela, Jackie and Gabriella work hard to help foreign residents with any issue that they have living in a new country. They can help with paperwork, ‘red tape’ and actively promote integration into the culture and lifestyle of Mallorca. They can be found in the town hall from Monday to Friday 9am till 2pm. The Foreign Resident’s Department is just to the right inside the front door of the town hall, or you can call 971 139 119.
The next foreign residents’ forum will be on 15.10.08.
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A FINCA FIX UP - PART 12
Even before we'd bought our finca on Mallorca, I'd imagined being able to go into the garden and pick a lemon from our own tree, for our evening gin and tonic. By the time we'd bought the place and begun to plan The Big Move, my imagination had turned that lemon tree into a small grove of citrus fruit trees.
We bought a pile of books about Mediterranean gardening, and The Boss - a bit of a whizz with a spreadsheet - created a multi-page document detailing what would be suitable to grow in the mallorquin climate, mindful of the water situation.
Our land is quite a reasonable size and comprises a rectangular field, a small rock and succulents garden (created by the previous owners), and a steep valley completely overgrown with wild olive and typical shrubs of the garrigue. To this date, I have still not 'walked' our entire land, not being deft enough with a machete to hack my way through the jungle. One day.
When we moved in, the rock garden needed only a serious session of weeding to transform it to its former glory - but the large field where we'd envisioned planting neat rows of vegetables and fruit trees was waist-high in weeds.
A mallorquin neighbour explained that these were asphodels, and very common in the valley. Sure enough, the field on the opposite side of our lane was also in a similar condition. What he perhaps didn't feel he could bring himself to tell us was that asphodels usually grow in very poor quality soil.
Wading into the sea of flowering weeds, The Boss made a decision. If only he had realised that it would take more than buying a brushcutter - the first of his new "boy's toys" - to rid us of that little lot...
You can hear Jan's radio show on Radio One Marratxi every Sunday from 11.00 to 13.00h. on 92.9fm
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