Luke Rhinehart of DICE MAN fame Lived in Deia when he wrote the book. He, and his family had many adventures living here and this story is Ann’s story from the sea… Ann Cockcroft is a brilliant author in her own right and Luke’s wife. www.sollerweb.com Luke Rhinehart In the summer of 1970, having just…
Roads and railways in Soller By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 31st January 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox This week the state of the roads, particularly the mountain roads have been exercising us. The Coll Mountain road is closed because of the landslides caused by last weeks’ weather. The snow…
Winter Weddings in Mallorca By Shirley Roberts This beautiful island plays host to hundreds of weddings every year and is the venue of choice for people from all over Europe and beyond. They all know that unless they are getting married as Catholics they have to legally marry in their home country and use the…
FIVE THOUSAND WORDS ON FORNALUTX Written by Shirley Roberts of SollerWeb Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin as a Fornalutx supplement… The most beautiful Village in Spain This is an accolade that has often been granted to Fornalutx and this year a new award has joined the ranks. ‘The Most…
The Port of Soller is a place of safety Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 10th January 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox When the weather turns and the sea becomes menacing outside our harbour wall the boats come in. On this side of Majorca, the Port of Soller is one of the few…
OF ALL THE PLACES WE ADVERTISE IT IS SOLLERWEB THAT GIVES THE BEST RESULTS This was the unsolicited testimonial from Bill Webb of Webbs International Removal Company today. Webbs are based in Santa Ponca but they work island wide and spend a lot of their time packing and unpacking in the Soller Valley. Many of…
Here comes 2017 in Soller Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 A tidy weekend of New Year celebrations and then it was back to work for the hundreds who are on a mission here in the Soller Valley. The ten month season…
This is a landmark… By Shirley Roberts Photograph by Rachel Fox This article, once published to the Tramuntana section of the sollerweb website, will be a game changer. Not because the prose and spellings will be 100% but because we enter the ZONE. When Soller Shirley Facebook page came into existence 8 years ago it…
The season of Christmas in the Soller Valley Words by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 27th December 2016 Extreme weather is the story of this year when all the school productions and end of term concert rehearsals remained suspended. The word went out on Tuesday 19thDecember that…
Betwixt and Between in Soller By Shirley Roberts Today is Monday 26th December 2016. In the UK it is Boxing Day with traditions of brisk walks, visits to the sales and another family gathering. The Boxing Day feast is usually centred around left overs and pickles and altogether a more relaxed affair than Christmas Day. …
