FIVE THOUSAND WORDS ON FORNALUTX Written by Shirley Roberts of SollerWeb Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin as a Fornalutx supplement… The most beautiful Village in Spain This is an accolade that has often been granted to Fornalutx and this year a new award has joined the ranks. ‘The Most…
The Port of Soller is a place of safety Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 10th January 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox When the weather turns and the sea becomes menacing outside our harbour wall the boats come in. On this side of Majorca, the Port of Soller is one of the few…
OF ALL THE PLACES WE ADVERTISE IT IS SOLLERWEB THAT GIVES THE BEST RESULTS This was the unsolicited testimonial from Bill Webb of Webbs International Removal Company today. Webbs are based in Santa Ponca but they work island wide and spend a lot of their time packing and unpacking in the Soller Valley. Many of…
Here comes 2017 in Soller Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 A tidy weekend of New Year celebrations and then it was back to work for the hundreds who are on a mission here in the Soller Valley. The ten month season…
This is a landmark… By Shirley Roberts Photograph by Rachel Fox This article, once published to the Tramuntana section of the sollerweb website, will be a game changer. Not because the prose and spellings will be 100% but because we enter the ZONE. When Soller Shirley Facebook page came into existence 8 years ago it…
The season of Christmas in the Soller Valley Words by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 27th December 2016 Extreme weather is the story of this year when all the school productions and end of term concert rehearsals remained suspended. The word went out on Tuesday 19thDecember that…
Betwixt and Between in Soller By Shirley Roberts Today is Monday 26th December 2016. In the UK it is Boxing Day with traditions of brisk walks, visits to the sales and another family gathering. The Boxing Day feast is usually centred around left overs and pickles and altogether a more relaxed affair than Christmas Day. …
The sweet taste of success in Soller Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 20th December 2016 A new publication is available in Soller this week with a lot of publicity being given to the authors. The subject matter is also conducive to conducted tours of Soller…
Des Mitchell just loves the music Written by Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 18th December 2016Photographs from Radio One Mallorca There are big names on Majorca and some of them have a world wide resonance. Des Mitchell is one of those people. He is a class act DJ with passions for…
Mountain culture in the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 13th December 2016 Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox International Mountain Day was celebrated on Sunday 11thDecember and was a reminder that Sollerics are mountain people. The United Nations decided in 2003 that 11thDecember should be the special day to…
