"Rock ‘n’ Roll meets the Medici...

...the garden of a large run-down finca in the middle of Mallorca was the last place I expected to meet a founding member of Sixties rock group ‘The Grateful Dead’ holding an Ottoman antique sword.

Another working day on this eclectic island which has been the home of the rich, famous and eccentric for centuries.

He explained that his late wife’s family had been European aristocracy who were related by marriage to the Medici family of Florence."

- Paul Atkinson