By Soller Shirley A perfect horseshoe bay with lighthouses on both sides as it turns seawards. Each beach area has its own local name and its own fans. Some will never go anywhere but the Repic Beach, others love the sands outside the Esplendido, others the Es Traves beach in front of the Fergus. The…
Christmas in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts The Christmas celebrations in this place are very local and Spanish with religious and family traditions attached to each of the celebration dates. Christmas Eve is very important and is when families gather for a celebration meal and a group visit to Christmas Mass at whichever church…
Balearic Day … Every year, around the 1st March, the Balearic islands organise activities around culture, sports and gastronomy to commemorate their Statute of Autonomy, proclaimed in 1983 and renewed in 2007. March 1st is the official day of celebration on the Balearic Islands with events and activities beginning a few days early and finishing…
Soller Web – ‘Made in Soller’ Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Web story began over ten years ago with the relocation of a group of families to the Soller Valley . They arrived with their ideas, businesses and children to make a new life in the Tramuntana. A web designer here, a writer there,…
By Shirley Roberts Written by Shirley Roberts in 2023 We are often asked for the dates and outline of all the fiestas in Soller. Some are planning their holidays around the dates and others want to avoid them. The Soller Valley fiestas on this list are local and will happen whether there are visitors in…
A Humans of Majorca story The story of what brings people to Majorca is a fascination for me because every one of them does have a story. In the case of Barry and Pablo they have two stories which met in Madrid. Humans come from all nationalities to this island and they each bring their…
Soller moves into 2015 Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 6th January 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox Local news is often in short supply during the extended holiday period as it is assumed that people are too busy with their own celebrations to want to keep up to date. So in this context it is…
WANTED – PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HOTEL ROCAMAR before it became derelict-Please read this message I received yesterday from Amanda which she has given permission to reprint here. It would be great if we can help her. thank you …Hi there,Feeling very nostalgic, mainly due to a really difficult time for myself and my family at the…
No 11 on the Times Newspapers list of 50 best hotels in the Med 2015 Set within a classical 100 year-old mansion house designed by one of Gaudi’s protégés, L’Avenida is in the centre of beautiful Soller, two minutes from the bustling town square, yet surrounded by the towering peaks of the Tramuntana mountains. L’Avenida…
Maria and Bodil 2020 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…