By Shirley Roberts On this the last Sunday before Christmas 2020 I can indulge myself in a little festive reflection. The ‘Humans of Majorca’ are doing what they do best at this time of year. This global term encompasses all who claim this title who may not live here year round. We enjoy the company…
By Shirley Roberts and Tracey Ivell My Humans this week are made up of those who live, visit, have second homes, used to live here and everyone who remains connected. The Sollerweb site keeps all these people together as a global family and they engage with us every day. They use the Website, the App,…
By Shirley Roberts and Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees A local Nan like me hangs out in unlikely places. Basketball courts, football pitches, tennis clubs and swimming pools amongst them. All these facilities are to be found in the Soller Valley and all have locations befitting film sets. The splendour of the Tramuntana is all…
By Shirley Roberts A frequent Nan’s Day Out for me is to our local park. Known by many names in the Port of Soller but mostly as the ‘Camp de Football’. This is a park with a football pitch in the centre and a running track round the outskirts. Swings for children on one corner…
By Shirley Roberts In the writing I have done in my career nothing has caught the imagination more than the series of ‘Nan’s Days Out’ stories published regularly in the Bulletin. These true stories are all based here in Majorca and tell the tales of my days out with one, two or all of my…
Written By Shirley Roberts Pics by Shirley Roberts Middle granddaughter indulged me with a Nan’s Day out while she was on a recent half term holiday. A glorious, warm, late October day and we pointed the car in the general direction of Campanet. Mimi knows this area well as it contains one of the many…
Written 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 newspapers including The Glasgow Herald and Times Educational Supplement. She also founded Moubray House Press in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Subsequently she has written…
By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Saturday 3rd October 2020 Humans of Majorca each have a story to tell of their experiences this year. Today I am looking at some of the business stories which affect our world in the Soller Valley. Successes and failures abound and all of them have…
By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 27th September 2020 Regular readers of my stories know the people who pop up. They get to know their names and tales. All of them have their six month experiences of a Covid world and how it has impacted on them. Humans of Majorca,…
By Shirley Roberts in July 2020 Followers of my outings with the granddaughters will know that they are all growing up. Taking them out, being in control of the music in the car, heading for something cultural has largely gone. I can still have days like that with the youngest (age 10) but my big…