In Competition No. 3111 you were invited to submit William Topaz McGonagall’s poetic response to Magaluf.
The Tayside Tragedian was much taken with the town of Torquay, and wrote a poem singing its praises. But what would he have made of Shagaluf? He took a dim view of alcohol, if these lines are anything to go by:
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer;
Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer.
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