Mallorcahouses waits for you at the KÖPA HUS UTOMLANDS in the Svenska Mässan, in Göteborg from 2 - 3 March  (10:30  -17:00 ). Find us on Stand 13. Download your free tickets www.fairmedia.se. Mässans Gata/Korsvägen, 412 94 Göteborg

For English friends, Mallorcahouses will be at A Place In The Sun in Manchesterbetween the 15th and 17th of March. Find us on Stand B80 at the Manchester Central. Download your free entrance ticket here. Manchester Central Convention Complex, Petersfield, Manchester M2 3GX. 

Sunday 3rd, Palma celebrates Carnaval. The Mallorcan Carnival may remind you of a small version of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, it includes people from competing teams and special performances with dancing and singing. Costumes and floats vary in colour and story but are all well worth checking out. The most creative teams are awarded in the end. Starts at 17:00 at the Passeig Mallorca through to Jaume III, Plaça del Rei Joan Carles I, Unió, Riera ending at La Rambla at 20.30. For the little ones there will be Sa Rueta, starting 10:30, the children’s party will run through La Rambla, calle Riera, Plaça del Mercat, calle Unió, Plaça del Rei Joan Carles I, Passeig del Born and Jaume III.

Auditorium Palma (auditoriumpalma.com):

14th - Balearen Symphonic Orchestra with works of Sibelius, Schmidt.

21st - Works of Ravel, Palomo, Debussy, Korsakov.

“Faust” in cinema in Cinesa Festival Park and Ocimax, Palma. Gounods opera live from the Royal Opera House in London. 

3 May - BohemianRhapsody Tour in Trui Teatre. 2 hour show about Queen, starting at 21.00. Truiteatre.es.

The air carrier BRA starts a new route from Malmö to Mallorca. The island is one of the most popular destinations for Swedes, during the summer there will be departures in both directions. Flights will run regularly on Saturdays,  between June 15 and August 3. Booking is a vailable online. www.flygbra.se

Sport events this year:

7 to 9 March - Car Race Clasico with historic sport cars. You have the opportunity to take nice photos of the old timer race through the Tramuntana mountains. 

29 March to 6 April - Sailing Trofeo Princesa Sofia. 2019 is the 50th anniversity year for the regata. Sailers from all over the world start in the Olympic disciplines in the bay of Palma.

10 to 13 April - Bicycle exhibition, roadbike festival. On the Playa de Muro the bicycle producers introduce their newest material and offer to try their newest bicycles. They offer daily trips with ex professionals and prominent cyclers. Info: www.roadbike-festival.de.

11 May - TriathlonIronman 70.3 in Port d Alcudia. For the little ironman the athlets have to complete 1,9 km swimming, 90 km bicycling and a half marathon. Only premium tickets are still available. Tickets and info: www.ironman.com.

19 May - Football, last play of the 3rd league. For Atletico Baleares should it be the fight for a rise against Hercules.

26 May to 1 June - OpenWaterSwim Festival. The harbor of Colonia St Jardi will be occupied by thousands of swimmers. Different categories and distances are possible. Www.bestopenwater.com.

9 June - Football, last play day of the 2nd league. Real Mallorca hopes and dreams of a jump in the 1st league against Extramadura.

18 to 24 June - TennisWTA competition Mallorca Open. The competition on lawn in Santa Ponsa is considered as a preparation for Wimbledon. Tickets: www.mallorcaopen.org.

29 June - Jogging 27 km along the track of the train from Palma to Soller. Or 13 km starting in Bunyola. Www.elitechip.net.

27 July to 3 August - Sailing, Copa del Rey. Hundreds of sailors and their entourage sail throught the bay of Palma. Photographers enjoy the motives with the cathedrale in the background. King Felipe VI will sail a round again.

13 October - Jogging, Palma de Mallorca Marathon. The biggest sport event in Mallorca, up to 10.000 participants are expected. Until 31 May you get the early booking reduction. Tickets for marathon, half marathon and 10 km: www.palmademallorcamarathon.com.

19 October - Triathlon, Challenge Paguera Mallorca. Tickets should be reserved fast, they are sold out very soon. Like the ironman, here the middle distance has to be completed. Start fee 190 Euro www.challenge-mallorca.com.

24 to 26 October - ExtremeTriathlon Ultra Mallorca Man. 3 days over 532 km in Port d Alcudia is only for trained athletes. Apply: www.ultramallorcaman.com.

26 to 28 October - Long Course Weekend offers in Port d Alcudia Triathlon for all age and performance classes. Each day offers one of the 3 disciplines. The longest distance each time is the Ironman distance: 3,8 km swimming, 180 km bicycling and a marathon. The distances can be combined individually. Www.lcwmallorca.com.

Handmade candelabras and furniture are designed in a studio in Carrer Sant Feliu, Palma by two gentlemen from Argentina. They were invited to the London Design Fair end September 2018 and their table “Connector” was a best seller. The table comes folded in single pieces in a flat carton, to be put up yourself.

Their candelabras are made from glass, brass, nickel, chrome and Terrazzo, each one a numbered unique piece,  produced at the Mallorcan glass manufacturers Gordiola and Menestralia.

Their furniture collection “Connector” are tables and shelves in different sizes. The tops of the tables are stones, manufactured by the Mallorcan tile producer Huguet in Campos. Mauricio Obarrio, one of the designers studied industrial design in Buenos Aires. His career started already during his studies: for the businessman, designer and restaurant owner Juan Santa Cruz from Chile he designed the lighting for the Isabel Bar in Buenos Aires and received a design price. Later he got orders for the Veuve Clicquot Lounge in Algodon Mansion Hotel and the Art Deco Hotel Miami. A typical “Contain” lamp is recognised from the puristic shape influenced by the art-deco-style. Some “Contain” lamps are already installed in private houses and mansions on the island. www.contain.es

The PlazaRaimundoClar in the East of Palmas old town and its closed surrounding is getting more and more interesting regarding good restaurants. The right spot for the sympathic “Tasquita d’Esquina”, a cosy and inviting place, offering food and wines, mainly  from the North of Portugal. Un-plastered brick-concrete walls, high room, big windows and many worth seeing fotos from the owner Sandra Viva. Sandra studied photography and worked as a waitress, last in  5star hotels, like the St. Regis Mardavall. She points out that it is not a restaurant, more a tapas bar, a casual meeting point, combining food, music and art. She plans live music in future and more exhibitions. You get “pan do caco” with butter and garlic, delicious “pataniscas” (in the card as “bunyols de bacala”), kind of deep fried grated potatoes on salted cod, onion, persil, some flour and water. “Chorizo Portuguese”, the meat is enriched with wine and roasted over snaps or “pica pau”, a combination of bread, potato chips and beef pieces in a sauce of mustard, wine and mixed pickles. Highlight is “francesinha”, a different kind of sandwich from Porto: 2 slices of toast, in between ham, a fried sausage, chorizo, a piece of beef and Serrano ham, topped with a coat of cheece slices, gratined, with some drops of sauce and served with potato chips. If you only like to have a glass of wine from Portugal or a glass of Portwine, always welcome, from breakfast to nightcup. Travessa d´en Ballester, 11, Tel: 603 15 54 95. tasquitadesquina.metro.bar - FB: tasquitaesquina

“Es Mercat des Peix” is an unexpected 360 m2 big and beautiful restaurant with 150 seats, a huge complete open kitchen in the middle and the heart of the restaurant: big amount of different fresh fish and sea food on ice, like in a market hall. You choose the fish and decide the way you like to have it prepared: fried, steamed, in the oven, deep-fried, with wine-butter-olive-sauce or in a salt coat. Decent price for the ready prepared fish, served with salad and a buffet with potatoes, potato wedges, 2 different rice variations, mixed vegetables. Some dishes you can buy ready. For non fish lovers they offer Angus filet. C/ Alfonso el Magnanimo, 29, Palma, Tel 871 85 29 40, www.esmercatdespeix.es

Close to the Mercat de l’Olivar in Palma is the restaurant “RamenOtaku”. Ramen is a special noodle soup, originally from China. The Japanese copied it and in the meantime it is a national Japenese dish with approx. 500 different basic recipes. Only in Tokio there are 8000 ramen soup restaurants and since 2016 two restaurants have a Michelin star. The soup starts with boiled pork and chicken meat, various - up to 15 different herbs, herb sauce, called “tare”. In their winter soup “Tonkotsu” comes as well a black garlic oil and of course the noodles, sometimes 4 different ones. Leek, soja sprouts, nori sea weed, sweet corn, beans, ginger and half an egg. The egg - an XXL bio egg - has been soft boiled before, peeled and marinated for 6 hours in a mirin-soja sauce mixture. As starter they offer steamed beans with lemon-chili-salt, home made Gyozas, either with shrimps, pork or tofu filling, a salmon-egg plant-tartar with Wasabi-caviar. As a desert they recommend cheese cake with tamarind marmalade and coco. All served with beer from Japan or Sake. The chef Bjoern Heibult worked in London, New Zealand, Barcelona, as a chef on private yachts and cruisers around the world. Among his clients are many famous, like George Clooney and Bjoern Borg. He got his name from him - his mother loved Bjoern Borg. C/ Volta de la Merce 2, Tel. 658 95 71 94, FB Ramen Otaku.

We offer our clients financing in Euro up to 70% of the valuation, in order to compensate the exchange rate for Non Euro clients. It gives you the possibility to decide when you like to pay back your mortgage with your own currency. If you make a good investment, you as well have the possibility to do capital gain. The banks have a long experience to work with foreign clients and Mallorcahouses will be there to help. 

Mallorcahouses is hiring a new office assistant to start in May. Must speak and write fluent English, comfortable in Spanish, Swedish or Scandinavian would also be a plus!! Must be good with computer skills, PDF presentations and keeping the website updated. We are looking for communication skills to meet with agents and constructors. Must have driving license. Own vehicle and basic photography skills are a plus.

Please send us ur CV and info to jobs@mallorcahouses.com

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Come with Mallorcahouses to discover Mallorca's most exiting villages…

1 - Port de Andratx(Mallorca Southwest)

Big popular fisherman’s harbour with fantastic villas climbing up the hillsides, the port has a wonderful bursting atmosphere thanks to the lively bars and restaurants that line the water's edge. All boasting of wonderful sea views and sun sets, amplified by the yachts mooring in the bay. It also has a working fishing industry, with a daily fresh fish market, that supplies many of the port's restaurants. It’s Mallorca’s Porto Colom of the south-west.

2 - Port Adriano/Nova Santa Ponsa/Sa Torre(Mallorca Southwest)

The trendiest, up-scale, super-yacht marina of Mallorca, it was remodelled by renowned architect Philippe Starck in 2012, to create one of the most modern marinas in the Mediterranean. The port offers a wide range of high-end fashion shops, international and local restaurants, and well-renowned boat support services. There are also free underground parking spaces. El Toro is overlooking the port, a small village where you find the most for everyday life.

3 - Cala Major(Mallorca Southwest)

A very active village by the beach, its sheltered position, clear blue waters and fine white sand beach offers good facilities. Cala Mayor has a mixed international community of full-time residents, including many locals. The Marivent Palace, holiday home for the Spanish Royal family, can be found here. Palma and shopping centre of Porto Pi are in walking distance and very close. Bellver Castle round fortress and its surrounding forest are also within short distance from Cala Mayor.

4 - Palma/Santa Catalina(Mallorca Southwest)

The most beautiful capital city in the Mediterranean, dominated by the massive cathedral overlooking the Bay of Palma. The historic old city, its town walls and a maze of small streets hint the Arab past.The unique old fisherman’s quarter of Santa Catalina has photogenic, traditional houses boasting painted façades, old wooden shutters and small balconies. The highlight is the indoor market, supplying residents, yachts, and numerous restaurants, cafés and bars that make Santa Catalina a popular culinary meeting place.

5 - Sa Rapita(Mallorca south)

Small Village next to the stunning, natural beach of 'Es Trenc', which stretches from Sa Rapita along the coastal strip to the larger town of 'Colonia Sant Jordi'. 3km of white Caribbean like beaches offer the calmest environment for families and relax. Spectacular views to the Natural Reverse Island of Cabrera. 

6 - Cala d’Or(Mallorca Southeast)

Mallorca's Ibiza inspired village, buildings are painted in traditional Mediterranean white. A pedestrian area offers a variety of shops, bars, and restaurants and a wide selection of international cuisine. The popular marina also welcomes restaurants and bars, exclusive yachts and chartered boats throughout the year, offering some of the best protection from storms in the whole of Mallorca. The outskirts of the village are full of quiet villas and the coast it is dotted with several hotels and apartments.

7 - Porto Colom(Mallorca Southeast)

The most traditional fisherman’s village in Mallorca, it nestles around one of the largest natural harbours, where the boathouses, lighthouse and boats add to the picturesque nature of the place. Porto Colom retains much of its original charm, with a bunch of quality restaurants and shops along the harbour promenade. The port offers boat charters and various sports activities.

8 - Cabrera

An uninhabited island surrounded by 17 smaller islands off the southern tip of Mallorca, here the landscape has remained unchanged for centuries. Enjoy the national park, virgin beaches, the extraordinary blue cave, historic Fort and typical Tapas bar in the tiny hourbour. Excursions to Cabrera are made by boat from Colonia St Jordi. +34 971 649 034.  www.excursionsacabrera.es. Military barracs have been transformed into a hostal for overnight guests – 12 rooms for up to 24 visitors. Hostal Cabrera + 34 971 65 62 82.

Through our own and our partners portfolio, we have access to all kinds of properties of any size, style or area on the island, more than 3,000 properties. Whatever you are looking for, we are convinced that we can find your dream property on Mallorca.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about buying a home on Mallorca!

Spring greetings,
Folke (Ockie) Särnmark and team