Sewing and tradition
For many years now, Catalina Trías has been running a night-time sewing workshop in Sóller aimed at making peasant dresses. An always full workshop. The participants in one of the Continue Reading
All about the language of Mallorca – By Barry Byrne
One of the best explanations on the language issue I have ever read – Shirley Roberts www.sollerweb.com Català or Mallorquí? As we celebrate European Day of Languages, it would be Continue Reading
Dear Soller Friends – A letter…
Monday 13th September 2021 and its cloudy Another week dawns in the good old Soller Valley. Home to farmers, playwrights, carpenters, fishermen, authors, singers, musicians, doctors, shop assistants, builders, plumbers, Continue Reading
Small Town Soller
By Shirley Roberts And all other small towns… The Hallmark Movies on TV are sugar sweet and will hardly win any Oscars. There’s a ‘small town’ theme running through most Continue Reading
Humans of Majorca: Can wear black for weddings
This black trend in summer dresses and wedding dresses is happening for a reason 2021-09-02 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts Summer dresses have taken on a black look this year. So many Continue Reading
Women are now in the ‘beautiful game’
30th July 2021 Written by Shirley Roberts Mimi Dean is a Solleric and has played football in Soller since she was five. The Football Club of Soller has always allowed Continue Reading
Ten things about Soller, some, you might not know…
(Written by Gabriel Mercedes and abridged into a form of Englishness by Shirley Roberts Permission granted by Gabriel Merecedes and Veu de Soller for this adaptation.) Soller is a unique Continue Reading
MALLORCA, BALEARIC ISLANDS
By Rachel Fox Pics by Rachel Fox Legend has it that Robert Graves chose Mallorca as his home partly on the advice of Gertrude Stein… “Majorca is a paradise – Continue Reading
Humans of Mallorca 2021
Say Hello to Rachel and Sally… The fifth year of Humans of Majorca begins with the 2021 story of Rachel and Sally. They are two women who have started a Continue Reading
Spotlight on Soller
By Shirley Roberts Pics by Rachel, Jay and me… All about the figures this week Statistics make such easy copy as you can interpret them any way you like. This Continue Reading
Stories of the Soller Valley by SollerWeb
Bringing Soller, Fornalutx, Deia and the Tramuntana, Mallorca alive with Stories about our beautiful area