Nan’s Day Out to Sa Rapita
By Shirley Roberts These are the days my friends, when energy needs to be spread…
Nan’s Day Out to Sa Rapita
By Shirley Roberts These are the days my friends, when energy needs to be spread over the whole island. The weather is great for travelling and exploring. Winter temperatures lend themselves to getting out there and seeing what the world on our doorstep has to offer. All too easy to stay put and let the…
Why I love Soller
Written for the Mallorca Bulletin on Valentines Day 2024 By Shirley Roberts I love Soller because it strikes my soul and the primeval need to belong. I loved London, and still do. I am fortunate to have had choice in where I have lived and found acceptance. I was not fleeing persecution, or making an…
The Mallorca-based British life coach rated one of the best in Spain, lives in Soller…
“What is interesting is that everybody talks about your coaching niche – business coaches, leadership coaches etc. but it comes down to the same things.” Tiffany Barnard at home in Soller. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter Humphrey Carter Tiffany Barnard was born in the UK but at the age of just six months the family moved…
The most important elections in Soller
By Shirley Roberts New readers will have worked out by now how important the local events of January are to Sollerics. Christmas, New Year and the Three Kings give way to Sant Antoni, fire and demons. After that, it has to be said, the local elections are very high of the list of important events….
Fish for tea?
By Shirley Roberts Puerto Soller is a genuine fishing village at the Marina end of the Port. ‘Santa Catalina’ is its name, and it has the most quintessential route of higgledy piggledy uphill streets and small houses. Once the homes of fishermen and women, port workers and now mix of local residents and second homeowners. Puerto Soller…
The weeks where time stands still…
In Soller and the Port Soller is defined by many things. Its farming and industrial past and its current place in the tourism world of Mallorca, being the most dominant. The ‘island within and Island’ concept began to change with the opening of the Soller railway and tram connection to the Port in 1912. This…
Small town life – what’s in a name?
By Soller Shirley Watchers of ‘Gavin and Stacey’ will know of ‘Neil the baby’. Neil is no longer a baby, but this is his name, no-one calls him just Neil. Small town life is full of nicknames and instantly recognisable characters. To have a nickname is generally a term of affection and acceptance. In Soller,…
‘I love a tourist’…
By Shirley Roberts There I have said it and I mean it. I know this view has been challenged un 2023 but it does not change my view. I know that the majority of people working in tourism are professional with visitors. Their personal views are just that and they get on with their work…
The 2020’s – A review so far…
A thought from Shirley Roberts www.sollerweb.com 2020 dawned and most of us had not a clue what was to befall us in the decade to come. Brexit happened 31st January 2020 Covid Pandemic started March 2020 Cost of living Crisis developed late 2021 Ukraine war 24th February 2022 Hamas, Israel war 7th October 2023 Statistics…
Nan’s Day Out to the Monastery
By Shirley Roberts ‘Nan’s days out’ have been a feature of my life since I became a ‘Nan’. I was very young at the time… My granddaughters, niece, nephews, Godchildren and other lovely friend’s children, have accompanied me on many of them. From trips to the Zoo in London, to the razzamatazz of Christmas Fairs…
