A little nod to Social History by Shirley Roberts Pic of Hampstead houses 2022 Urban planning has immediate and long term effects and changes the course of history for many locations. If I take you back to the North London which existed before I arrived in the world you would find mansions and servants. The…
For the Humans of Mallorca By Shirley Roberts Social History writers chronicle change and raise our antennae to developments. So it was in the lockdown days of the pandemic. All writers wrote regularly without knowing how it was all going to end. The act of writing and recording was a world of its own. The…
By Shirley Roberts Visitors and residents of Majorca know very well how much fiestas and historical celebrations mean to the community. Every Village, Town and City has its celebrations and local people living in other places return for them every year. The ‘Soller Firo’ gained more and more attention every year until the pandemic stopped…
2022-04-21 Soller By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts Clare and Charlie are those special people who dance in your lives adding interest and colour. They arrived in the Soller Valley around twenty years ago and added this place to their ‘significant memory box’. Clare’s friend (from the age of 8 weeks old) made a big family…
By Shirley Roberts I am fascinated by change and also love to reminisce about how things used to be. The past, present and future are all part of our lives whether we are comfortable with that or not. In the tourism world we have watched as the FIT’s took over from corporate tourism. That’s ‘Free…
By Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees Poetissa Fca Alcover is named after a woman – A poet and a very special lady of her generation. She died in 1955 and is revered in the Soller Valley She was a writer and journalist and wrote articles defending the Church from anticlerical attacks and…
We loved the wander around Petra 2022-04-14 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts When the grandchildren are on school holidays I sometimes have their company. We wander the island looking for the places which please us. This can be anywhere on the island which the car or train will take us. The train route starts…
By Shirley Roberts and Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees The location under the Puig Mayor and the Alfabia ridge means that nature in all its majesty is evident every which way you turn in Fornalutx . Its cultural heritage lies in its existence, pre the Conquest of Majorca in 1229, of a thriving manufacturing community. Its…
By Shirley Roberts The North West coast of Majorca holds many treasures. From Valldemossa, the coast road to the Port of Soller is a journey of the world. Take that turn and the delights which Arch Duke Luis Salvador of Austria found here all those years ago remain and have been extended. The Archduke was…
By Shirley Roberts The tales of the people who live and visit here are many and varied. Some are obviously here to make money in whatever way works for them. Scams, criminality and opportunism exist in Majorca just like anywhere else in the world. We all like to think we live in a world where…
