Tradition in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 7th February 2017 Majorca is a very traditional island. In all towns and villages and in the City of Palma itself local and national commemorations fill the annual diaries. The City of Soller is right…
Ambassadors Follow Contact I am passionate about my project to mount my attractive, small , ceramic murals at the entrances of the beaches and bays along the coast of the island of Mallorca. They visually demonstrate the message to : Take your trash with you off the beach and place it in the trash…
Autumn traditions in Soller Two thousand and fourteen children started the new school year in Soller at the end of last week. This is the reported school population of the Hidden Valley and the breakdown is very interesting. Five hundred and seventy attend the Institute which is the only public secondary school in Soller. Traditionally…
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…
My story today begins in Denmark in 1950 with a man who was a revolutionary in so many ways. Elif Krogager was a man of the cloth – a Pastor, a resistance fighter and an entrepreneur. His work with the Danish people after the war made him realise that they were a depressed nation that…
RV BONNIE LASS Bonnie Lass was built in 1949 on the east coast of Scotland. Her life was that of a wooden framed working fishing boat. She caught herrings and dredged for scallops in Scotland and then fished for Salmon in the beauty of Northern Ireland before becoming a museum piece in the Maritime Museum…
The Soller Train and Tram welcomes the residents of Majorca Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 25th November 2014 Photographs by Rachel Fox Hot news this week was the announcement by the Ferrocarril Train Company of Soller about a significant price decrease. The company had gone to the Balearic Transport Authority with their…
The Soller Train and Tram welcomes the residents of Majorca Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 25th November 2014 Photographs by Rachel Fox Hot news this week was the announcement by the Ferrocarril Train Company of Soller about a significant price decrease. The company had gone to the Balearic Transport Authority with their…
By Soller Shirley Yesterday I sat at the counter of a favourite Palma Deli. Four o clock, with a cup of coffee contemplating, what, if anything, I was likely to buy. To start with I was the only one there but soon a table or two filled up and a few joined the counter space…
The LOVE LOCKS of Soller Lovers lock the engraved padlock around the post of a significant place to them and then ceremoniously throw away the key. This takes some planning as you first have to get the padlock engraved with your special message. That done you take your padlock , key and a bottle of…
