A Soller Valley mini review of 2017 Photograph by Rachel Fox Memories, golden and sad moments make up all our lives and it certainly has been true for me this past year. The first story that has really amused me is all to do with speed. This story was given room in the papers and on…
By Soller Shirley Is it just me or is there something very dark about ‘the elf on the shelf’. The scout elf sits there watching and listening all day, and then reports back to Santa in the North Pole every evening. ‘He knows is you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake’….
Lorraine O ‘Brien is a business woman, charity fund raiser, daughter, sister, lover and friend. This is a lady who has had three lives in one and has still got a lot of living to do. A person who has never lost sight of her roots and the people that made her what she is…
Written by Shirley Roberts I feel I am a lone voice for the Northern Irish Tourist Board. I have recently returned from an August week’s adventure there, in which I was one of very few visitors. How was it possible to drive the Ards Peninsular, alongside vast empty beaches and seal colonies and be the…
The party is over in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 25th August 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The City of Soller today marks the day when the all night parties stop for awhile. The San Bartholomew celebrations follow a tradition that has been enhanced now that electronic sounds, local music and…
Feb 15 at 8:04 PM The film set also known as Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 17th February 2015 Photographs by RACHEL FOX What a week we have had in the Soller Valley . It was a jump from one excitement to the other and it was all in the name of illusion. …
Simon Reynolds found his Place in the Sun in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 19th June 2016 and updated June 2020 Photographs by Rachel Fox When the TV production company came knocking in Soller a few months ago they wanted an English contact. Someone who understood the mind-set…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 4th March 2014 Sometimes I am challenged about the things I write about Soller and the questions send me scurrying back to my sources to check my facts. The lovely Dr George Giri who who has written the Rural Life page for this paper for many years…
Life’s a beach on Sunday Morning…Have a look around if if you are heading to the beach today. Apart from all the milky white new arrivals who are desperate for the sun there will be all the little children covered head to toe in the sun avoidance suits. The English visitors have this market cornered and…
The English speaking Sollerics are defined by where they drink their coffee in the Soller square in the mornings and the price they are prepared to pay for it. I knew that I’d become Majorcan when it mattered to me that I knew places where coffee only cost 1.50€. This is really a talking point…
