June glooms and pleasures in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 6th June 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox June’s glooms are being felt by the Town Council of Soller as they are under siege on the subject of rubbish. Their state of the art rubbish machine has…
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…
What is a Compassionate community? 2022-03-24 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts A trip to Palma on the bus, experimenting for the day when it will be too expensive to drive the car. Soller buses are in good shape at present with a new fleet and an increased timetable. It is no hardship to use…
Humans of Mallorca wake up to a whole new community… The time has come to be bold, get out of that front door and smile 2022-02-10 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts Since the evolution of Ex Pat arrivals in Mallorca the stories have struck a chord between amazing and boring. So many reasons why…
Soller’s Pirates By Andrew Rawson of Mallorca Days OutPublished in the Majorca Daily BulletinSunday 10th May 2015 Photographs by Andrew Rawson On Monday the Soller valley comes alive with the sounds of battle as the Christians and Moors battle it out. But what is the story behind this wonderful fiesta? Let us go back nearly…
By Soller Shirley Watchers of ‘Gavin and Stacey’ will know of ‘Neil the baby’. Neil is no longer a baby, but this is his name, no-one calls him just Neil. Small town life is full of nicknames and instantly recognisable characters. To have a nickname is generally a term of affection and acceptance. In Soller,…
ICE COLD IN SOLLER The history of Soller is fascinating to me and the archive material now becoming available changes the face of the story of Soller as I understood it. The tales of dependence on the orange and olives and how their failure over a couple of years led to the mass migration of…
Written by Shirley Roberts with pics by Rachel Fox and Shirley Roberts Twenty years ago, the Repic Beach in the Port of Soller, had its significant people. The boat owners, the fishermen and those who ran the beach services were very important in the Repic world. The perfect horse shoe bay had its fine and…
HOLY WEEK – AS IT UNFOLDS Written by Debra Reynolds Our Religious Affairs Correspondent Saturday 4th April – Holy Saturday Holy Saturday is the final day of Lent, Holy Week and the Easter Triduum. As on the Friday, there is no Mass offered on this day. The Easter Vigil Mass, which takes place after sundown…
By Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees To define a person from a geographically huge country is impossible. In the UK’s small world, the differences are huge between the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Think how that must be for all the Autonomous Regions of Spain. I stepped in to the world of Andalusia…
