Nan’s Day Out into controversy By Shirley Roberts, 20th September 2020 Published in Majorca Daily Bulletin I managed to get one more Nan’s Day Out, after all, before oldest Granddaughter hit the airport and flew into the excitement of Brighton. Her language skills have come in very useful lately and I am going to miss…
Mary Lynn Gadosh Ohio to Soller – one way… Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Lynn Gadosh Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 4th December 2016 Lynn Gadosh is a name that many people of Majorca are familiar with. She turned up in Soller thirty years ago and stayed. Her early life was…
We said good bye to Elena Davis 1915 to 2016 By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Thursday 7th October 2016 On Thursday 6th October 2016 over fifty people gathered in Soller. We were following the express wishes of Elena Davis who died a few weeks ago. Elena was 101 and everyone thought…
‘The corporate banking world of the Royal Bank of Canada opened many doors for us and started us on our adventures away from the suburbs of Sussex. City of London opportunities meant that the hop across the world to Toronto happened at the time our children were grown enough to make their own choices. The…
How big was an English penny or a halfpenny come to that? I can tell you because someone keeps dropping them on the entrance mat of our house in Soller. It’s not difficult to identify us in our street half way between Soller City and Port. We are the eccentric English who decided to…
Charity begins at home in Soller Photographs by RACHEL FOX The Soller Valley had a late start to Christmas. The new Christmas tree with its poinsettia sculptures and silver lights was still being erected last Thursday in time for the ‘switch on’ ceremony on Friday. We have had a make do and mend Christmas…
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…
The drums were the first possessions that arrived in Soller when this couples relocation brought them to the Hidden Valley. Native New Yorkers with a dream to find the perfect place for the explosion of art and music in their lives. A couple of Art Student kids who met at the famous ‘Art Students League…
This is what we do… Sollerweb was born 18 months ago and the roller coaster of events has been so breathtaking that sometimes we have to force ourselves to stop and take stock. Tracey Ivell, web designer of this parish bought the web name ‘Sollerweb’ in 2007 and knew one day when she would use…
Mar 29 at 9:10 PM Welcome to our Soller world Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 31st March 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Valley has woken up to sunshine and Easter visitors. The supermarket car park is overflowing and the slow traffic behind pods of cyclists is a fact of life again. The…
