30th July 2021 Written by Shirley Roberts Mimi Dean is a Solleric and has played football in Soller since she was five. The Football Club of Soller has always allowed girls to play in the same teams as the boys. As they get older the rules change and girls usually head off to a women’s…
From Putney Bridge to Soller – a story Published in the Majorca Daily bulletinSunday 16th November 2014Photograph by Rachel Fox Every year the stories are plentiful of the people who arrive in the Soller Valley with all their dreams in tact. They have arrived to live and work here and they alternate between excitement and…
The obituary of Elena Davis of the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Friday 19th August 2016 By Shirley Roberts Photograph by Rachel Fox Elena Davis died on Thursday 18th August 2016 at the great age of 101. She recently celebrated her birthday in the Juan March Hospital where she was being…
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…
Betwixt and Between in Soller By Shirley Roberts Today is Monday 26th December 2016. In the UK it is Boxing Day with traditions of brisk walks, visits to the sales and another family gathering. The Boxing Day feast is usually centred around left overs and pickles and altogether a more relaxed affair than Christmas Day. …
The peaceful olive trees of SollerPublished in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 14th October 2014Photograph by RACHEL FOXSoller is known for its oranges and citrus fruit production but a revolution has been going on behind the scenes. The olives of Soller are staging a fight back and want to be the pre eminent export of the…
All change for Christmas in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 23rd December 2014 Photographs by Rachel Fox As all the people left the Valley last Friday heading off on planes to the UK and further afield we were considering hanging a sign above the Soller Tunnel. ‘Will the last person out…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 11th March 2014 The weather is the weather and living near the sea we are used to the sudden changes that take our world from calm to mayhem. Nothing could have prepared us for the perfect storm that we were to observe this week and it all…
RV BONNIE LASS Bonnie Lass was built in 1949 on the east coast of Scotland. Her life was that of a wooden framed working fishing boat. She caught herrings and dredged for scallops in Scotland and then fished for Salmon in the beauty of Northern Ireland before becoming a museum piece in the Maritime Museum…
Fornalutx is twinned with Strembo On 27th April 2013 a ceremony took place in Fornalutx to mark the official twinning of towns. Strembo is a beautiful , mountainous small town in the Trentino municipality of Northern Italy.Fornalutx and Strembo are now officially twinned. This process began in June 2011 when the dignitaries of Fornalutx were…