The swallows have all but gone, just a few stragglers left soaking up the last rays of early winter sunshine. They have booked the last flights to regional airports back in the UK before the closed season schedules begin in earnest. Our Soller swallows are those who arrive, settle and then at the first sign…
A Soller Valley mini review of 2017 Photograph by Rachel Fox Memories, golden and sad moments make up all our lives and it certainly has been true for me this past year. The first story that has really amused me is all to do with speed. This story was given room in the papers and on…
The Chinese whispers of Soller Published in the Majorca Daily bulletin Tuesday 13th January 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox This is the time that the rumour mill of the Soller Valley begins the whispers or in some cases the shouts. The list of hotels and their winter spend has been published and all can…
Soller celebrates art, football, music and lifePublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletin onTuesday 26th August 2014Photograph by the Es Moli Hotel who sponsor CF SOLLER The football pitch of Soller is called Camp d’en Maiol and has stood at the heart of Soller for over 100 years. The club is at the heart of so…
A Humans of Mallorca story on 12th July 2021 by Shirley Roberts ‘Where have the mermaids gone?’ I was asked today. I was at the Museum of the Sea in the Port of Soller taking pictures for an article. I got talking to a very happy couple celebrating their wedding by clicking a padlock to…
The Feast of the Assumption – Saturday 15th August 2015 The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on 15th August each year. This year it falls on a Saturday. It commemorates the death of Mary and her assumption, body and soul, into Heaven before her body began to…
Vall I Art deserves its place next to the Museum of modern Art By Shirley Roberts on 29th April 2021 By Shirley Roberts The Port of Soller has created its first space for ‘Itinerant Art’. The site is around the Antoni Montis roundabout in the Port of Soller. Local man Tofol Colom is the first artist to place…
A dog walk, two lost French academics and an interesting tale is the offering from Soller this week. An often trod dog walk took me to the back of the town in Soller. Past the station and climbing the streets in the lower slopes of the mountains that protect us. The house we always look at…
Behind the shutters of the Soller Valley Written by Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 16th February 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The village houses of our area are wonderful delights for the imagination because you just don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors. The huge imposing wooden doors are often…
By Shirley Roberts in July 2020 Followers of my outings with the granddaughters will know that they are all growing up. Taking them out, being in control of the music in the car, heading for something cultural has largely gone. I can still have days like that with the youngest (age 10) but my big…
