There is Mallorca, and just beyond, there is Mallorca.  Rarely have I visited a place that presents such a duplicity between its reputation and surface (overcrowded “package” tourism”) and what you can actually find beyond the beaches, teeming resorts, and yes, the maddening crowds. And I’m here to tell you friends that the Mallorca beyond […]

The story I have to tell begins in Portugal in 1881. A team of scientists from the Lisbon Geographic Society gather to undertake an expedition to the Serra da Estrela mountains some 300km away. The Serra, the highest point in continental Portugal (the peak at Torre clocks in just shy of 2,000 meters) acquired its main […]