NIE from a Spanish consulate in the US, appointments, documents and money before you fly; padrón, bank account, internet, car and school on arrival; health care and daily life in the first month.
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Palma's four neighborhoods, Port d'Andratx and Portals, the Calvià coast, the Serra de Tramuntana, the north, the Llevant, the interior and the south-east: what sets each area apart, who we see buying there and how far it is from Palma and the airport.
Official crime figures for Mallorca, petty theft in Palma and on the beaches, village life, driving rules, 112, hospitals, fire risk and tap water, explained from the south-east.
The full official list of international schools in Mallorca, with curriculum, ages and website, real driving distances from Santanyí, Ses Salines and Campos, and how the public system and the 2026-2027 calendar work.
Spanish for paperwork, English in shops and restaurants, Mallorquín heard everywhere but never required: how languages really work in Mallorca, explained from the south-east of the island.
Lunch at 1:30, dinner from 8:30 and no tipping percentage: how eating out really works in Mallorca, explained from the south-east of the island.
When you live in Mallorca, sooner or later you become a tour guide. The parents arrive, the old friends, the children with their partners, and suddenly it is you who decides what is worth showing of the island. And that is when you discover something: the Mallorca of the excursions — of the monuments, the caves, the viewpoints and the wooden train — is not the Mallorca of the holidays. It is the one...
You can live in Mallorca for years and still be an outsider. Or you can go to a fogueró in January and stop being one in a single night. The festivals of this island are not folklore laid on for tourists: they are the skeleton of the year, the place where a community recognises itself. And they are, by a distance, the fastest and most honest way in. We have been in the southeast since 2010 — Ses...
Eating well in Mallorca is easy. Eating from here is another thing entirely: it is a way of life. And it is probably what turns you from newcomer into neighbour faster than anything else. Because the Mallorcan pantry is not discovered on a restaurant menu, but at the Thursday market stall, at the village bakery, and in the conversation with the person who sells you the tomatoes and tells you, without being...
Mallorca doesn't have one climate — it has four. Anyone who only knows the island in August goes home with a single image — sun, heat and crowded beaches — that barely tells a quarter of the story. Living here all twelve months means discovering that the same village transforms completely with the seasons, and that the island is really several climates in one: the mild, sun-soaked south and east, the...