The Heart of our Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 2nd February 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox Nestled in the heart of the Soller Valley is the soul of the place. Many people enjoy this area for the seaside and the mountains, others for the shopping and great food and still more for…
T The war games of a Mallorcan tycoon How business magnate Juan March played off the Allies and Germans in WWI to grow his empire MANUEL MORALES 20 AGO 2014 – 13:47 CEST Recomendar en Facebook6 Twittear15 Enviar a LinkedIn0 Enviar a TuentiEnviar a Eskup EnviarImprimirGuardar Multi-millionaire businessman Juan March in Estoril, Portugal, in 1943. / CAN VERGA…
Music for Milk By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 9th August 2016 As the beautiful summer life of the Island of Majorca continues it masks some real life problems. The school holidays that last for over twelve weeks traditionally have a nutritional problem which affect the lives of many hundreds…
Toilets, Trams and Tsunami in the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 31st May 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The provision of toilet facilities is in our neck of the words is a recurring theme. This week some public toilets have been opened in the Port of Soller. These are tucked into…
Shirley Roberts All business minds in Mallorca are in a whirl this week. Our delegates to the World Travel Market in London are talking the talk of the delights of Mallorca. They are consolidating the ‘Brand’ they have been working on for months and in some cases, years. Sixty years ago when tourism grew, the…
Sian Mackay tells a story of War, Resistance, Art and Love in Von Ripper’s Odyssey Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 25th September 2016 by Shirley Roberts Sian Mackay is a writer and a long time resident of the Soller Valley. She has held many publishing roles including several years as a freelance journalist for…
Joan Bennàssar. The Road to Lluc. Shelters of Love and Good Will 2021-07-05 Palma By Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter “On the right side of love is the Beloved and on the left side is the Friend;and this is why, to reach his Beloved, the Friend has to go through love first.”Ramon Llull This last year a strange enemy has burned…
By Soller Shirley I am fortunate enough to meet many people who tell me of their life experiences and stories. One, this week, has stayed in my mind, and I share it. My new friend told of an exciting family life, full of travel and adventures in half the world. The family unit was great,…
Bryn Hughes paints the Soller Valley … Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 11th October 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox To sit in front of the Miramar Hotel in the Port of Soller with Bryn and Liz Hughes was such a pleasure this week. We were surrounded by paints, sketch pads and examples of…
My story today begins in Denmark in 1950 with a man who was a revolutionary in so many ways. Elif Krogager was a man of the cloth – a Pastor, a resistance fighter and an entrepreneur. His work with the Danish people after the war made him realise that they were a depressed nation that…