Soller in August is where everyone wants to be Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 5th August 2014 The language of the City of Soller at present is a race between Majorcan and French. The English and German languages hardly get a look in. It is amazing how for five weeks in July…
NOVEMBER the month of romance in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 1st November 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox St Ursula has a lot to answer for but she gives us the Day of the Virgins in October and the bunuelas to eat for the winter. Story has it that Ursula was so…
The Chinese whispers of Soller Published in the Majorca Daily bulletin Tuesday 13th January 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox This is the time that the rumour mill of the Soller Valley begins the whispers or in some cases the shouts. The list of hotels and their winter spend has been published and all can…
A PIRATE ANGEL IN THE CAR PARK By Shirley RobertsA great night at the Mallorca Dream Homes party and then it was almost midnight and time to go home. Drove home (no alcohol had passed my lips) and parked in the car park near our house in the centre of Soller. By some idiot sleight…
All you need is love in Soller We love weddings in Soller and the City gets plenty to host and love. Big, formal, beachside, mirador, hotels, churches, gardens are all the locations and forms of a wedding Soller style. Take last Friday evening for instance when San Bartholomew Church was used to host…
Do you know your neighbours in Soller? This week The Times had a full page on the way that the British are out in force buying properties in Europe. Spaintops the list followed very closely by Franceand some longer haul places like Canadaand Australiaare also in the top ten relocation list. This trend is more…
The Artist and the Gaudi influence information from Wikepedia While in Paris on a modeling assignment, Saint Phalle was introduced to the American painter Hugh Weiss, who became both her friend and mentor. He encouraged her to continue painting in her self-taught style. She subsequently moved to Deià, Majorca, Spain, where her son, Philip Abdi, was born in…
A story for December in SollerIn December, twenty two years ago a little miracle took place in Soller. The effects are still felt to this day and will go on as long as people have memories. If you cast your mind back to what was happening on the world stage in 1992 you might have…
The busy January world of Soller Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 20th January 2015Photgraphs by Rachel Fox The people of Soller reclaim their City in January. They are glad to share their fiestas with visitors but essentially it is the the locals time to celebrate the fiestas of the Church calendar that have been with…
From Friday 13th March to Wednesday 25th March 2020 The diary of living with a virus in the Soller Valley 2020 Friday 13th March 2020 Children will go to school this morning and learn how remote learning is going to work for them. Two weeks of school closures will be joined by two weeks of…
