Local Sporting Events for 2022

A new year and time to sign up for some new challenges…. Here are a selection of local sporting events that are well worth considering.  For more events in the Balearic Islands check out www.elitechip.net – Many of these events have shorter distances for the...

Save The Entangled Turtles

Recover ghost fishing gear and contribute to citizen science while at sea! – STM launch a new site for the nautical sector. Spending countless hours at sea each year, what better community is there than the yachting community, to help protect marine life and...

Living La Language Loca!

And they ate partridges? One of the featured dishes at our lovely Christmas event this year at Xoriguer with the Islander heavyweights has been the inspiration for the content of this piece; the lovely partridge salad. In English, we have the famous ‘…and a partridge...

Essex to Palma in a toasty little Caterham 7

Time for a bit of mountain tripping and myth-busting! You are mad they said. You’ll freeze they said. You won’t know cold like it they said. And god forbid what they said about my levels of comfort and what this treacherous little car would do to my hearing, let alone...

Global Warming and Winemaking

Despite the fact that some still deny the scientific evidence, ‘global warming’, or ‘climate change’ as some people water it down to, is a very real factor in our lives today.  The increasingly extreme weather conditions, such as droughts, floods, and out of season...