Ronald was an adventurer from the Netherlands. I say was, because these days he is to be found in downtown Soller living a busy productive life. Even adventurers have to find their place in the universe in the end. He left his native Netherlands when he was 23 and headed for the world of South…
Horacio and Pilar are Humans of Majorca By Shirley Roberts The drive to see the artist took me to Ses Salines, a traditional small village in the south East of Majorca. Many will know the route to the salt mines and the Port of Colonia St Jordi. A different landscape without the dominance of a…
By Shirley Roberts Since 2003 the name Celebrity Magazine has meant something to the residents of Mallorca. Ken and Angie took their cameras and copy around the events and playgrounds of the island. They kept us amused with the antics of the Calvia centric crowd and published as often as they could. Life has moved…
At least they did till the Virus arrived… The poorest people are afraid of earning nothing and finding themselves in the ‘workhouse’. A hundred years ago in the UK if you couldn’t pay your way you ended in up in a segregated, slavery workplace institution. Your children were traded as servants or received apprenticeships they…
Humans of Majorca and Quarantine isolation is in the news. All countries are making local and global decisions for their communities. Majorca is an island with vast historical experience of the successful management of quarantine. In the ‘History of Soller’ project that I am currently involved in, many hours of information gathering were spent in…
250,000 kms versus 30,000 kms… A coffee chatter gossip built into a bigger story as more people gathered. In my years of running around Mallorca in an increasingly battered car I have clocked up 250,000 kms. This represents my life here from school runs to wedding venues, to hospital vigils, to client meetings, to interviews,…
Sandra Hamill is a lady many know from her work with disabled travellers and her commitment to the Anglican Church in the Port of Pollensa. It was my privilege to talk to her this week in her office off the Port of Pollensa’s main square. She is a successful business woman with a string of…
By Shirley Roberts This is the invitation and mantra of this weeks ‘Humans of Majorca’. I took my place in the vicarage of Palma to come and see for myself what is going on here – right now. I have a love story and a series of events which brought my people to this place….
Maria and Bodil 2020 My story today begins in Denmark in 1950 with a man who was a revolutionary in so many ways. Elif Krogager was a man of the cloth – a Pastor, a resistance fighter and an entrepreneur. His work with the Danish people after the war made him realise that they were…
