By Soller Shirley The question people who relocate always consider, is whether they will live in a place full of the language they have left back home. In Soller there are 13,500 residents (approx.). The last count I saw states that there are 2000 foreigners (born in a foreign country) in that number Incomers have…
Written by Shirley Roberts, all photographs taken by Shirley Roberts To get to the beaches of Caribbean level in Majorca, I have to drive, for half and hour, to pick up the motorway. Muro and parts of Alcudia are stunning beach favourites but sometimes they are just too far. With a nippy hire car this…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin -29th April 2014 Each new season brings the newcomers, the business ideas and new people here ready to make their mark for the first time. The Movers and Shakers arrive to have their Soller moment and we all watch with great interest as they try hard and either succeed…
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…
COMING SOON TO SOLLERGLACE MOUSTACHEJust what we’ve always wanted – an ICE CREAM VANwhich can be a party venue, a means of transport or a purveyor of ICE CREAM…Watch this space for much more info on this unique enterprise AND ALL THE OTHER NEW INITIATIVES AND IDEAS FOR THE HIDDEN VALLEY IN 2015…
An orange or a carton in the Soller Valley? By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 27th June 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox A backstreet Soller bar was my gossip venue this week and a request for an orange juice. Six oranges were cut in front of me, squeezed then strained…
The two years of Covid has been a leveller and the effects are now being felt 2022-02-03 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts Choice is available to those with money and there are plenty of them in Mallorca. For the overall benefit of the island our rich friends are extremely important. They have enough to…
By Shirley Roberts On this the last Sunday before Christmas 2020 I can indulge myself in a little festive reflection. The ‘Humans of Majorca’ are doing what they do best at this time of year. This global term encompasses all who claim this title who may not live here year round. We enjoy the company…
The Vintage Soller Train is one of Mallorca’s biggest tourist attractions Vintage Soller Train, Palma At the beginning of the 20th century Soller’s orange production industry was thriving, but because the city is surrounded by mountains, it was impossible to transport goods and passengers to Palma. Getting to the capital involved a difficult and tiring slog down…
T The war games of a Mallorcan tycoon How business magnate Juan March played off the Allies and Germans in WWI to grow his empire MANUEL MORALES 20 AGO 2014 – 13:47 CEST Recomendar en Facebook6 Twittear15 Enviar a LinkedIn0 Enviar a TuentiEnviar a Eskup EnviarImprimirGuardar Multi-millionaire businessman Juan March in Estoril, Portugal, in 1943. / CAN VERGA…
