MINORCA Top Stories
The Daily Telegraph Australia: SPANISH air traffic controllers have called in sick en masse, halting take-offs at Madrid and Balearic airports in a surprise action after the government issued a new...
Orange News: Daredevil tourists are being warned against a deadly craze of leaping from balconies into swimming pools. The holiday stunts, called balconing by the Spanish, involve...
The Times: Sri Lankan splendour - from £489 The Mount Lavinia Hotel, just outside Colombo, is a colonial hotel with parts dating from Victorian days, and with doormen wearing pith...
All the magic of Minorca2011-10-14
The Australian: WHAT were the Phoenicians thinking? The bay looks unprotected, naked, with barely a tree along the shore. Not at all a suitable harbour away from home for a race of seafaring traders. Ah, but the water is blue, that only-in-the-Med sort of blue. Perhaps the...
Minorca: the better Balearic2010-02-06
The Times: Minorca was not what I expected - and the fact that we were nearly crushed by a huge horse tottering daintily on its hind legs in a crowded town square was the icing on the ensaimada. I've been to the Costa Blanca and read about Mallorca, Minorca's big...
Correction: Minorca Cutbacks story2009-03-05
The Examiner: Comments VIRGINIA, Minn. (Map, News) - In a March 3 story about plans to extend a shutdown of the Minorca mine near Virginia, The Associated Press reported erroneously that operations at Hibbing Taconite Co. and Northshore Mining Co. had also been idled....
The Examiner: Comments VIRGINIA, Minn. (Map, News) - Employees of yet another Iron Range mine are preparing for an upcoming shutdown. Workers at the Minorca mine near Virginia have known for months that the taconite operation would cease production in mid-April to allow for...
Minorca and Malta in one break2007-10-19
The Times: What's the best way to visit both Minorca and Malta in a week? I want to visit some sites in Admiral Nelson's history and can't find out who flies between these two places. Kate Coltman, London Sunday Times travel...
Five bullets in the chest for Minorca2006-06-07
The Times: THE Court Martial of Admiral Byng, a play from the prolific Nigel Pascoe, QC, presented us with a very modern controversy. Performed in the baroque splendour of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in the presence of the Princess Royal, Pascoes piece told...
Minorca - it's a shore thing2005-02-12
The Times: MINORCA is not for the young and ambitious. It’s for the very young and their unambitious parents. So much so that anyone even thinking of booking a holiday without small children should do the same as one couple we met, and bring someone else’s....
Minorca2003-05-24
The Times: STOOPED together inside the dank interior of Naveta des Tudons, Minorca’s finest megalithic tomb, we both watched fascinated as the setting sun pointed a fragile finger of gold through a tiny stone doorway and lit the far recesses of the chamber. Even...
Individual: S Tsitsikamma National Park is a narrow strip of nearly roadless hikers' paradise along the Indian Ocean. Cars are of limited use, but visitors explore the park by bike, by canoe or on foot. Up Close and...
Biniarroca Hotel, Saint Lluís, Minorca2000-06-03
The Times: Setting the scene A lone whitewashed 16th-century farmhouse towered over by a graceful palm tree in quiet countryside a ten-minute drive from the coast. A courtyard with dry stone walls covered in bougainvillea leads to a tiled pool and a garden with lavender...
