As our City fills with locals, visitors, holiday makers, tourists and strangers take a minute to consider this. The Spanish peninsula and its islands are foreign, in a sense in which France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia are not. These countries represent near neighbours whom we have often talked with over the garden wall. This is…
The RAIXA ESTATE is on the other side of the Soller tunnel. 10 minutes from Soller and you are n a beautiful old world with many years of history. Raixa has been used as film sets many times particularly for Agatha Christie movies. This article has been written by Andrew Rawson of Mallorca Days Out…
DID YOU KNOW – You can vote in UK elections for 15 years after relocating to Spain You can register online at .https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Before you start make sure you have 1. Your last address in the UK including full post code 2. Your National Insurance Number 3. Your Passport Number. The vote you are granted…
The taste of Mallorca Part One The Soller Valley is home to many traditional Mallorquin dishes. Local Sollerics have very strong views on which restaurant serves the best home made dishes. The competition for the finest thin crackling on the Roast Pork/Lechona dish is fierce. As for the correct way to serve Arroz Brut it…
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin and tell you the story of ‘A day in the Life of a Mallorca wedding celebrant’. Friday 23rd September was the glorious wedding day of the fabulous S & A getting married in the Finca Son Pont in Puigpunyent. The location was specially chosen to have the…
The art of the Soller Valley is what Judy Swaffin specialises in. She was seduced by the light and glorious artistic opportunities when she first visited in Majorca in 1979. She arrived with sculptor husband and teenagers in tow to visit a Poet friend in Deya. He had told her that it was ‘heaven on…
Melons, Churches and controversy in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily bulletin Tuesday 14th July 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The L’Horta area of Soller occupies a different place in the heart of the hinterland between City and Port. It is the place that the tram stops without ringing the bell and the place…
I’ve been on another adventure in Soller and can’t wait to share my findings with you – it is just so interesting. I went to the public library just off the town square to begin my research. I had been told that Soller was a town that in the past had segregated libraries. Story has…
By Shirley Roberts I am so aware, as I write this, that many readers wish they were me today. All three of my granddaughters are here in Majorca and all of us able to go out together. So many reading this are in the UK, Germany, Sweden and the USA. We all have different restrictions…
The beautiful ladies asleep in Mallorcan Churches ‘The Assumption of the Mother of God’ is celebrated in Spainand is a very important religious day and a state Bank Holiday. Saturday August 15th 2015 is a BANK HOLIDAY. This means that all banks and offices will be closed and only a limited number of shops will…
