Juan March Hospital in Caubet
By Shirley Roberts with reference to Diario de Mallorca The Joan March hospital is the building in the high distance seen from the Soller Road. It is often called ‘Caubet’ Continue Reading
Keep connected with the jungle drums of the Soller Valley Markets…
By Shirley Roberts on 17th September 2022 A market is a market is a market except when it a Mallorquin market. At heart they are for local people to see Continue Reading
The day a ‘Human of Mallorca’ met the Queen
By Shirley Roberts A long time ago I went to Buckingham Palace and inadvertently met the Queen. I was 19 and working as a ‘CESR’. Computers as we know them Continue Reading
Elena Castillo and Laurel Marx are ‘Humans of Mallorca’
By Shirley Roberts These two talents open a joint exhibition on Friday 19th August 2022 at 8 pm in the Museum of Soller. Both famous in their own worlds, they Continue Reading
The Route of the Lighthouses in Mallorca
By La Palmesana Editorial Office-July 21, 2022 The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and executive councilor for Sustainability and the Environment, Aurora Ribot, and the island’s director for the Environment, Continue Reading
Three ‘wolves’ are my Humans of Mallorca this week
On their way to the Commonwealth Games… By Shirley Roberts The Canadian Wolf Pack have landed in Spain and I met three of the ‘wolves’ in Soller this week. The Continue Reading
Benito is a Human of Mallorca and a ‘Man of the Sea’.
Written by Shirley Roberts with pics by Rachel Fox and Shirley Roberts Twenty years ago, the Repic Beach in the Port of Soller, had its significant people. The boat owners, Continue Reading
A Brief History of the St Philip and St James Anglican Church in Palma
Written by Gillian Garden a member of the congregation – June 2022 The first Anglican congregation in Mallorca was founded in Alcudia in the 1860s by Robert Bateman, the director Continue Reading
The World is walking and everyone has to stop somewhere..
Humans of Mallorca came from Bosnia thirty years ago. By Shirley Roberts Some Humans of Mallorca started their lives in Bosnia. Between 1991 and 1999 the Balkan War and the Continue Reading
After Victory….
My North London School… By Shirley Roberts, A Human of Mallorca now but a Londoner of the past… Social History explorations take me in different directions. The school motto of Continue Reading
Stories of the Soller Valley by SollerWeb
Bringing Soller, Fornalutx, Deia and the Tramuntana, Mallorca alive with Stories about our beautiful area