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Fun in the Sun

Hello dear reader, How are things in your neck of the woods? Here on Mallorca everything's just peachy. We go to the beach, make ice-cream and did some interesting DIY projects that the authorities will surely tell you about later. I wasn't allowed to hold the

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Finally at My Summer Residence

Dear reader, As the title indicates, we are in the best place in the world again, por fin! Mallorca, how I've missed you... It took long enough but the authorities finally got their act together and got us some tickets to come to this beautiful island. (And now

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Remember the paddle boarding? Of course you do. Now we've introduced Small Paw to the fun and she took to it like a fish to water. We made it all to the way to the dinosaur rock on the other side of our bay; me swimming and Fa

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Finally, Pictorial Evidence

After some not so subtle pressure from a certain small person attached to this household, we finally took some pictures of our afternoon swim yesterday. Behold the Small Paw of the sea: For those of you how know the place, we swam to the beach and back where Small Paw

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Fun in the Sun

Hello dear reader, the days are just drifting by in a haze of sea, sun and ice cream. It's wonderful. The authorities are not well organized at all when it comes to taking pictures of my latest exploits so unfortunately I can't show you just how

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Lovely Mallorca

¡Hola, dear reader! We finally made it to my summer home on the beautiful island of Mallorca and I can't tell you how happy I am to be back. There's water to play in everywhere, the food is yummy (I'm finally getting my fair

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Rainbow Warrior III

The Rainbow Warrior III was in the port of Palma for two days so we took the opportunity to take a tour. They came to protest possible contracts for oil exploration that's been planned off the coast of the Balearic Islands. The name does not show it, but

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Return to Barcelona

Hello there dear reader, It's been a while that I've written, I'm sorry. This time I'm laying the blame fair and square on the catering lady since she refuses to let me near the computer. I have to wait until she'

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Cooling Down

And just like that, summer is over. The weather is turning cooler, leaves are slowly starting to change their color and clouds are threatening a bit of drizzle every other day. We've made it to Barcelona for some errands before starting the trip to Italy tomorrow and I&

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Busy Times

Dear reader, what whirlwind days and what fun it's been! The authorities are really working hard on keeping me entertained and I appreciate the effort. First, they've started to feed me this thing called "food". Strangely enough it doesn't come from a

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Valldemossa

Our friend Henriikka came to visit us for a few days and after three days of nothing but lazing around the pool and paddle boarding, we finally took her out for a little trip around the island. Originally we meant to go to the Jardins d'alfalbia but we&

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Simchat Bautizo

As Small Paw already mentioned, a big group of friends came to visit us last week and it was wonderful. At first only Shanna was going to come. Then Sam and Micha heard about her visit and decided to come as well. As soon as we told Claudia about that,

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Slow Going

I'm sorry that things are a bit slow with the write up about the 'special night' that Small Paw alluded to in her last post. I promise it's coming. But someone cough THE BABY cough is making things mighty difficult to get any computer

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All Action, All the Time

Dear Reader, Finally, the authorities have understood my plight and done something to alleviate my boredom. It took them long enough but last week a whole group of people came to visit me and it was simply marvelous. So many aunties and uncles and everyone wanted to play with me!

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Sittin' Pretty

Hello kind reader, I hope your summer is progressing swimmingly. Here in Mallorca things are swell. I just turned 4 months old and pulled a few more tricks out of my bag to keep the authorities interested: some vocal work with the letter 'R' (tough going to roll

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The Heat Is On

It's too hot and not much is happening but here are some pictures from the last few days. A whole group of sail boats anchored right in front of our house a few evenings ago. During sunset one of the guys shimmied* up to the top of the

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Hanging by the Sea, Literally

For the summer I am traveling though the seaside towns of Mallorca. Luckily I got a gift in the mail recently for literally hanging out. It's a Cacoon that you hang and I love swinging in it. At the apartment the walls are too close, so I requested

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Food, Food Everywhere Nor Any Bite to Eat

Hello, your favourite baby blogger here again. I'm sure you've been wondering what I'm up to, what with the authorities hogging all the space on this site. So let me tell you, they're starving me. That's right. And I'

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With the Speed of Light

Just a little visual aid to show how much Small Paw has grown. Exhibit A, 2 days old: Exhibit B, 12 weeks old:

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Calvià

We felt like we needed to get out of the house the other day so we took a lunch time trip to Calvià, the "governing" city of our county. We've only ever seen it from afar and it looked cute but we'd never actually

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Sa Bruta, the Roof of Paguera

The water is still a bit too cold to actually go swimming (although Conor has braved it once and lives to tell the tale) so we're trying to get our exercise in other ways. Yesterday we went walking up to Sa Bruta, the small mountain behind Paguera. It&

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My Day

I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself and get started early on the whole writing thing so here goes my first guest post. Hope you like it. The authorities of the house are still quite dependent on me so I have to spend a lot of

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Short Walk to Camp de Mar

Camp de Mar isn't far - it's the next bay over from our house - but the walk there does involve a hike through the woods over a large hill. There's a little tower at the top from the 1580s when they had to

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The Smallest Paw on the Road

Maybe you've noticed we haven't posted in a while? Sorry about that but we've been a bit busy expanding the Paws family. Please meet the smallest paw on the road. She's still tiny but already well-versed in the art of travel. Now

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Gaudí revisited

It's been a few years since we've done any actual touristing around Barcelona so a visit from our friend Giulia was the perfect opportunity to rectify that. She wanted to see the Sagrada Familia and to complement the Gaudí experience we also went to see La