We reserve the right to change our mind in Soller The Mayor of Soller is an important person here who is highly visible and approachable. He is often to be found chatting to the public or having coffee with the older generation who constantly hold him to account. When he goes on holiday it is…
Photograph by Rachel Fox A tantalising glimpse, a snippet of a story and then it all comes tumbling out. That is reality of life in Soller in June as the summer gets into full swing. A story came my way about the developments up at the Santa Maria d’Olivar Church on the road between Soller…
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 UNESCO WORLD OF THE TRAMUNTANA Welcome to the Serra de Tramuntana in 2015 The Serra de Tramuntana has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO under the Cultural Landscape category. This is the international community’s acknowledgement of the near-perfect symbiosis between the action of human beings and nature, which has occurred for centuries,…
Written by Shirley Roberts with pics by Rachel Fox and Shirley Roberts Twenty years ago, the Repic Beach in the Port of Soller, had its significant people. The boat owners, the fishermen and those who ran the beach services were very important in the Repic world. The perfect horse shoe bay had its fine and…
To arrive in Deya in 1959 at the age of 21 was a waltz into a a world of poets, artists and people giving their lives to hedonism and pleasure. Jackie left Los Angeles after completing her degree to go on an adventure after a boyfriend had told her of the delights of this Mediterranean…
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…
The two years of Covid has been a leveller and the effects are now being felt 2022-02-03 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts Choice is available to those with money and there are plenty of them in Mallorca. For the overall benefit of the island our rich friends are extremely important. They have enough to…
By Shirley Roberts The craggy mountainside rises out of the sea from the Port of Soller. The caves and inlets are there until Deia and beyond. The smuggling stories of this area are legendary and start from early days. In more recent Franco times the routes were used for tobacco, antibiotics and essentials, not easy…
Havaneres, Gin, Chickens and more in SollerPublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 16th September 2014Photograph by RACHEL FOX The Soller Valley is awash with gin and tonic and experts. We have watched at fiestas when the hospitality kings of the Tourism University have demonstrated the art of preparing the ultimate drink. Special swizzle sticks to…
