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The Olive Press launches a new edition in Mallorca this week, our third. Here, editor Jon Clarke, waxes lyrical about the island he first visited in the 1990s
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T gives me great pleasure to be launching a new edition of the Olive Press in Mallorca. Our third issue, it will be the start of a steady expansion around the rest of Spain over the coming years to compliment our family of websites, which get up to 10,000 visitors a day. And what a lovely place to launch our third issue. From its stunning countryside to its pristine beaches, and from its frenetic capital to its rich and varied restaurants, there is so much on offer on the Balearic island. Yet, like so many people growing up in the 1980s, I had a vision of the island being full of Union Jack shorts and kiss-mequick hats, all thanks to Lorraine Chase I guess. So when, living in Madrid shortly after university, I was told that the King and Queen of Spain took their holidays there, I thought perhaps I’d better take a peep. And what a surprise I got clambering into the Tramuntana foothills, which were as picturesque as anywhere on the mainland. The hiking trails were varied and well maintained, the views some of the best
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VIEWS: To Palma from Tramuntana mountains with (far left) Graves, Olive Press editor Jon Clarke with agent Amanda Butler and chef Marc Fosh, Gong (right)
in Christendom, and the villages friendly and charming. And then I found Deia; the home of Robert Graves, a writer I had first read at school. His tome, Goodbye to All That, on the First World War, legendary in both its honesty and style.
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cade or so later inspecting idyllic hotels as a part-time job for guidebook Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay. Not long set up in Spain in Ronda, I was honing my skills as a freelance travel writer at the Daily Mail having spent the previous five years as a news reporter there. It was during three or four family holidays here that I really got to know the island, its variety and magic. Perfect as a destination for young families, we rented amazing rustic farmhouses with friends from home and spent our days at the wonderful beaches of Mondrago and Formentor, before decamping early to a village square to sip rose, while the kids darted around and played. It is fittingly just over a decade since I launched the Olive Press in Andalucia, with a second edition in Gibraltar two years ago, plus various websites and magazines. It was born out of the need for a real newspaper to get away from the bland and turgid offerings that amazingly still exist on the Costa del Sol. A newspaper to both report on what was really happening around Spain, from its rich culture and nature to, polemically, its dark underbelly of corruption and crime, and particularly environmental abuses. But above all, I wanted a newspaper to represent its readers, the millions of expats of all nationalities around Spain… to investigate their stories, hear their grievances and try to right some wrongs.
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After all, giving them a voice is what a good local newspaper should be about. I am proud to say we are now very much part of the local community in Andalucia and nearby in Gibraltar, as well as much farther afield through our website. With our third edition in Mallorca we hope to get under the skin of the island and present it in a positive and original light, with a varied mix of stories. We will also, of course, investigate wrongdoing and corruption and stand up for the little man, wherever he may be. We hope to quickly become the expat community's eyes and ears in Mallorca, as we have in Andalucia. That is our mission. And that is, after all, the DNA of any good journalist or newspaper. I believe you deserve more than just regurgitated rehashed stories, fake news and Facebook to know what is going on. Yours Jon Clarke Publisher The Olive Press Group