A CARMEN story from Soller for you.. This week sees the celebrations of the’ Mare de Deu de Carmen’.this is Mary as the Mother of God known by her Alta ego of Carmen. She is the patron saint of all seafarers. She is not exclusive to fishermen like St Peter but much more inclusive. The…
Soller loves its mountains Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 16th December 2014 Photographs by RACHEL FOX The International day of the Mountains was celebrated by the United Nations last Thursday and the theme of Mountain Farming was announced for the coming year. Statistics poured from their offices and we learned that this is an…
Jackie Waldren reads the Prego By Shirley RobertsPhotographs by Rachel FoxPublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletin onSunday 21st December 2014 The annual celebration in Palma on 30th December of the Festa de L’Estendard is very important in the life of this Island . It commemorates the date in 1229 when Muslim power came to an…
The Soller Valley welcomes autumn Today is the first day of the autumn season which will last for 88 days before giving way to winter on 21st December 2014. Autumn has started with welcome rain and a reshuffle of the hot humid weather of late. The walkers and cyclists arrived as usual in early September…
The people of Bunyola live on the other side of The Coll de Soller – our mountain. Many of them work in Soller and most are related to someone in Soller. This is a joined community separated by a very large mountain. When the Soller Tunnel was opened in 1997 the powers that be in…
Soller in its Dog Days of Summer Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 16th August 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The ‘Dog Days’ are the hottest and most unwholesome time of the year according the calendar. My long forgotten Latin tells me that Sirius, the Dog Star is responsible for the time between…
One of the best explanations on the language issue I have ever read – Shirley Roberts www.sollerweb.com Català or Mallorquí? As we celebrate European Day of Languages, it would be remiss to avoid the contentious issue of what to call the language spoken on the island of Mallorca. To the godly preacher, setting out from…
A Humans of Mallorca story Arrivals happen every day and local Estate Agents can give you the numbers on a month by month basis. The winter is when it all tends to gel together and all of a sudden you are living next door to an 80’s pop star. It’s only luck that makes you…
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…
