Balearic Day … Every year, around the 1st March, the Balearic islands organise activities around culture, sports and gastronomy to commemorate their Statute of Autonomy, proclaimed in 1983 and renewed in 2007. March 1st is the official day of celebration on the Balearic Islands with events and activities beginning a few days early and finishing…
The Soller Football Club ground is 97 years old this year – its birthday is on August 24th. The stadium was built in the centre of town about 5 minutes walk from the town square. Of course when it was built it was on the outskirts of town but these days the urban sprawl has…
Simon Reynolds found his Place in the Sun in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 19th June 2016 and updated June 2020 Photographs by Rachel Fox When the TV production company came knocking in Soller a few months ago they wanted an English contact. Someone who understood the mind-set…
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…
