TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAINS DAY 2014 Theme: “Mountain Farming” Covering around 27 percent of the earth’s land surface, mountains play a critical role in moving the world towards sustainable economic growth. They not only provide sustenance and wellbeing to 720 million mountain people around the world, but indirectly benefit billions more living downstream. In particular,…
The killing of the pig in the Hidden Valley of Soller ‘Matances’ is a century old tradition in Majorca. For an entire year a family would fatten up a pig to slaughter it during “matançes”.Gatherings take place of family, friends and invited honoured guests to watch the killing of the pig and then get involved in…
The killing of the pig in the Hidden Valley of Soller ‘Matances’ is a century old tradition in Majorca. For an entire year a family would fatten up a pig to slaughter it during “matançes”.Gatherings take place of family, friends and invited honoured guests to watch the killing of the pig and then get involved in…
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…
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…
Moving to SOLLER in Mallorca Every year a new intake of people arrive in the Soller Valley. They are people who have just achieved that retirement nest egg and dream, to the individual who came here on holiday and doesn’t want to go home. The many others between those extremes represent families and career moves…
Moving to SOLLER in Mallorca Every year a new intake of people arrive in the Soller Valley. They are people who have just achieved that retirement nest egg and dream, to the individual who came here on holiday and doesn’t want to go home. The many others between those extremes represent families and career moves…
Soller Web – ‘Made in Soller’ Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Web story began over ten years ago with the relocation of a group of families to the Soller Valley . They arrived with their ideas, businesses and children to make a new life in the Tramuntana. A web designer here, a writer there,…
Soller Web – ‘Made in Soller’ Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Web story began over ten years ago with the relocation of a group of families to the Soller Valley . They arrived with their ideas, businesses and children to make a new life in the Tramuntana. A web designer here, a writer there,…
SOLLER – The Island within an Island in Mallorca had its own gas and electricity supply one hundred years ago.. Always ahead of its time and independent to the core – To be a Solleric was a respected status then and now… The company El Gas S.A. brought gaslights to Sóller in 1893. In 1908,…
