A question or series of questions from our postbag answered by Barry Byrne Q: Are there any non-resident, but second home owner’s ID cards to prove we are more than tourists? Q: Can you be a part-time Spanish resident? Someone with all the rights and paperwork of a resident but who doesn’t live here enough…
The virtual postbag of www.sollerweb.com has been bulging with your questions. They are ‘Pandemic’ and ‘Brexit’ related with a bit of general information thrown in for good measure. There is no doubt that our readers are ‘rebooting’ their lives and the questions they ask reflect this. Sollerweb can hunt the answers in an overall way…
Written by Shirley Roberts The Lockdown year of 2020 has produced some fascinating work. The Art, the Writing and all manner of Creativity will be laid at the door of this most peculiar of years. For me, I began a year’s project with the author Ellen Joosten. This book is heading to the printers as…
Time to make a decision or two Written by Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees The chatter of the week has surrounded the report from the General Council of Economists and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce. This study looked at Spain from 1975 to 2020 and came up with glaring problems for those wanting…
By Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees To define a person from a geographically huge country is impossible. In the UK’s small world, the differences are huge between the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Think how that must be for all the Autonomous Regions of Spain. I stepped in to the world of Andalusia…
Written by Shirley Roberts, all photographs taken by Shirley Roberts To get to the beaches of Caribbean level in Majorca, I have to drive, for half and hour, to pick up the motorway. Muro and parts of Alcudia are stunning beach favourites but sometimes they are just too far. With a nippy hire car this…
By Shirley Roberts plus pics by me… Day’s out in a pandemic have to be thought about and planned. For a start you can’t just get a bunch of family together and set off for a trip. The kids are at school and sometimes the urge, just to drive and escape, can’t wait. Occasionally I…
Today I bring you the pictures taken by Gary Lloyd Rees, a regular swallow from Canada who usually join us annually. Kate and Gary are a lovely couple who bring a great camera and add to the Soller Valley photographic collection each year. They have an interesting story to tell and are honorary Sollerics. We are…
By Shirley Roberts Pics by Rachel, Jay and me… All about the figures this week Statistics make such easy copy as you can interpret them any way you like. This week we have been told that The weddings in Spain in 2020 were the lowest number in years. The birth rate has fallen An increase…
By Shirley Roberts Under the current rules I am allowed to go for a walk with a member of my family. This week we didn’t get in the car but just walked the walk of the faithful towards the Cemetery and beyond. This is a much loved walk when you know where you are going. …
