By Shirley Roberts Life has changed for everyone in the past two years. We are now welcoming visitors back to the Soller Valley and it is great. Their mentality, like ours has taken on a new focus and different decisions are being made. For a ‘Nan’s Day Out’, getting in the car and heading off…
The Big Yuyu – The Blues for the Soller ValleyThe odd word here and there and then the rumble – you know how it is in a small community. The word was out that there was a great blues band in our midst and gradually we all started making our way to their weekly gig…
The swallows have all but gone, just a few stragglers left soaking up the last rays of early winter sunshine. They have booked the last flights to regional airports back in the UK before the closed season schedules begin in earnest. Our Soller swallows are those who arrive, settle and then at the first sign…
The hills are alive in the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 5th May 2015 Photographs by RACHEL FOX There is a whole world that lives in our mountains and I am not just talking about the sheep and goats. On first sight it is not easy to see the paths and…
Soller where the important meet the absurd Published in the Majorca Daily bulletinTuesday 12th August 2014 One of the features that I most love about the City of Soller is they way the big issues and finer points of life are given equal prominence. You can have the visit of the King alongside the calls…
All you need is love in Soller We love weddings in Soller and the City gets plenty to host and love. Big, formal, beachside, mirador, hotels, churches, gardens are all the locations and forms of a wedding Soller style. Take last Friday evening for instance when San Bartholomew Church was used to host…
Hidden Valley – Interesting facts of the weekFigures published this week state that 36.5% of properties in Mallorca are owned by foreigners.ABC Mallorca, in one of their articles have lifted the lid on the developments planned for the Port of Soller They say ‘In the natural harbour of Puerto de Sóller, apartments used to be…
To everything there is a season in Soller… Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 25th October 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The closed signs are being polished and fixed to the door of the first hotels to close their doors for the season. The early closers have the builders poised ready to rush…
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…
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…
