Written by Shirley Roberts I feel I am a lone voice for the Northern Irish Tourist Board. I have recently returned from an August week’s adventure there, in which I was one of very few visitors. How was it possible to drive the Ards Peninsular, alongside vast empty beaches and seal colonies and be the…
Written on 9th May 2023 by Shirley Roberts The last 24 hours have been a ‘fascination of social media’. Coming out the other side I am making a personal statement. Strong feelings on all sides mean that some views are one dimensional. I would just like to offer a little contribution to ‘both sides’. Five…
10,500 Facebook Followers, 130,000 Website clicks annually, Instagram, You Tube, Mallorca Bulletin, Celebrity Magazine, Radio One Mallorca are all the place you can find www.sollerweb.com these days.. My day starts with a cup of tea and the daily letter. I aim to get it online by about 7 am but sometimes, although the spirit is…
Have a visit and immerse yourself in a cultural oasis in Palma… Elena Castillo creates her beautiful works from her studio in Soller. Her sculptures and artwork appear in collections worldwide… Such talent in our world “The Garden of Gethsemane” is a new cycle of paintings by Ilya Gaponov, consisting of large-scale multi-figure compositions. The…
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’ by locals which is the name of the estate where it was built. Caubet was the small village and the hamlet which housed the chapel, the…
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 and be seen and to conduct weekly business. Mobile phones and computers on the go are a feature of life here as everywhere else but…
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 were in their infancy and office machines trying to do better than ‘tippex,’ ran ‘paper tape’ applications for standard letters. As a ‘Customer Education Support…
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 work quietly in the Soller Valley emerging only when we shout from the rooftops that they must share their work. We are so privileged they…
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, Inmaculada Férriz, presented today at a press conference the new hiking route, the Route of the Lighthouses. Likewise, the route will allow contact with the…
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 team had gone their separate ways and were holidaying all over the island. They had instructions on fitness and nutrition but apart from that were…