By Soller Shirley Hidden behind the mountains of the Tramuntana and at the end of the tunnel lies our city Soller, the gateway to the Hidden Valley in all its beauty. Not everyone is a fan, indeed many find the parochial charms very limiting. Phrases like ‘you can’t live on scenery alone’ are to be…
Today I am responding to kind readers who have asked me for ideas for a trip to London. My Nan’s Days Out take place in all sorts of sites from Majorca to Cornwall to London. London is the one many want to know about apart from the huge interest in our adventures round Majorca. London…
Eva Kircz and her exhibition in Can Prunera I am Jewish and have lived with the aftermath of war, loss and separation all my life. I was born after the war in Amsterdam to my mother who survived the war by just walking out. Then she just kept on walking. The rest of her family…
Diamonds were the friends of the press that gathered in the Belmond La Residencia this week. We marvelled at the beautiful, subtle diamond jewellery presented to us by Vanessa Tugendhaft. An A list of celebrities led by Madonna have been seen wearing her pink string band with the diamond in the middle. This is diamonds…
Soller is not closed – yet… Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 10th November 2015 As the season changes and the colours of autumn dominate our mountains and valleys there is a danger in thinking that everything is closed. For some parts of Majorca that is true and resorts resemble ghost towns but that…
If you have time to give or money to donate they will be very glad to hear from you 2021-11-18 Palma By Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees and the Majorca Daily bulletin Shirley Roberts This time last year Sollerweb plus all major charitable contributors were concentrating on food. Locally we had a very…
By Shirley Roberts And all other small towns… The Hallmark Movies on TV are sugar sweet and will hardly win any Oscars. There’s a ‘small town’ theme running through most of them. The hero or heroine has left for the big City for education or a fine job and said goodbye to small town roots. …
For the Humans of Mallorca By Shirley Roberts Social History writers chronicle change and raise our antennae to developments. So it was in the lockdown days of the pandemic. All writers wrote regularly without knowing how it was all going to end. The act of writing and recording was a world of its own. The…
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…
By La Palmesana Editorial Office-July 21, 2022 The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and executive councilor for Sustainability and the Environment, Aurora Ribot, and the island’s director for the Environment, Inmaculada Férriz, presented today at a press conference the new hiking route, the Route of the Lighthouses. Likewise, the route will allow contact with the…