CANYONING – today I have received inquiries about this sport and I have passed them on to our friends at Tramuntana Tours The following is reproduced from their website – Please contact them direct if you would like this thrill in your life!www.tramuntanatours.com Canyoning is a relatively new sport that involves walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling and/or swimming through a…
ICE COLD IN SOLLER The history of Soller is fascinating to me and the archive material now becoming available changes the face of the story of Soller as I understood it. The tales of dependence on the orange and olives and how their failure over a couple of years led to the mass migration of…
The shop has local fruit and vegetables and shares the same from other Agricoles around Mallorca. 2021-09-16 Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Thursday 16th September 2021 Shirley Roberts In rural landscape history tells many stories. Oranges, olives and farming is with us all over the island and they ebb and flow in…
Soller Web – ‘Made in Soller’ Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Web story began over ten years ago with the relocation of a group of families to the Soller Valley . They arrived with their ideas, businesses and children to make a new life in the Tramuntana. A web designer here, a writer there,…
We loved the wander around Petra 2022-04-14 Palma By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts When the grandchildren are on school holidays I sometimes have their company. We wander the island looking for the places which please us. This can be anywhere on the island which the car or train will take us. The train route starts…
Melons, Churches and controversy in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily bulletin Tuesday 14th July 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The L’Horta area of Soller occupies a different place in the heart of the hinterland between City and Port. It is the place that the tram stops without ringing the bell and the place…
By Soller Shirley Watchers of ‘Gavin and Stacey’ will know of ‘Neil the baby’. Neil is no longer a baby, but this is his name, no-one calls him just Neil. Small town life is full of nicknames and instantly recognisable characters. To have a nickname is generally a term of affection and acceptance. In Soller,…
(Written by Gabriel Merce and abridged into a form of Englishness by Shirley Roberts Permission granted by Gabriel Merce and Veu de Soller for this adaptation.) Soller is a unique place on the Island of Mallorca with special praise given to its location, beauty and heritage. The number of return visitors to this location speaks…
Full Headers Printable Vi The dawn chorus wakes us in Soller early these summer mornings. The sudden change in the weather and the departure of the North wind has been greeted with incredulity in the Soller Valley. One minute we’re moaning about the nights being cold for this time of year and then Africa sends us…
Ronald was an adventurer from the Netherlands. I say was, because these days he is to be found in downtown Soller living a busy productive life. Even adventurers have to find their place in the universe in the end. He left his native Netherlands when he was 23 and headed for the world of South…
