Soller rings those bells for New Year A few little tips for your New Year Celebrations in Soller City Square Tradition says that you gather in the square with your Cava and 12 grapes. For each chime of midnight you eat a grape – wonderful luck is assured if you manage to eat them all…
RICHARD VINTON plays Port of Soller … Our favourite pianist Richard Vinton is appearing twice weekly in the Port of Soller. El Moll Bistro Bar have managed to secure his talent every Monday and Wednesday for the foreseeable future. Richard is known to many as the pianist that rocked ‘Come Fly with me’ Sinatra show…
Music, traffic and thieves in Soller By Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 23rd May 2017 When the crowds come out so do the chancers. This week we have had record numbers in Soller for the Firo and related events. The square was packed last Saturday morning…
The snow is so rare here in the Hidden Valley that when it sdoes happen we talk of it for years after the event. February 2012’s snowfall closed the Tunnel and trapped us for a few hours in our own strange winter world. It was beautiful and we will not forget …
The moon shines bright on Soller tonightPublished in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 9th September 2014Photograph by RACHEL FOXThis has been the summer of the brightest moons in memory. We have another tonight and it will fill the Hidden Valley in a spectacular way. There is nothing like that moon exploding from behind the mountains and…
FERIA DE ABRIL 2016 29th April 2016 to 8th May 2016 Fifty years ago Mallorca was emerging into the world of mass tourism. Hotels were being built everywhere and an infrastructure created that could sustain it. 25% of the residents of Mallorca at the time were not born here. Many of them were economic migrants…
Anja Wester, skydiver, sailor, adventurer and Solleric By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily bulletin Sunday 10th January 2016 Anja is a very familiar face in the Port of Soller. With her three beautiful daughters and husband Allan she embraces local life, the sea and all it offers. She rocked up on our shores…
Let’s swap places in Soller this week Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 6th December 2016 This weekend is the ‘Puente’ and for those who do not know what it means, this is an explanation. ‘A puente (Spanish for bridge) is a holiday in Spain, it is the…
A week to remember in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 28th June 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox This is the week that politics came to our doorstep in the Soller Valley. The acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was on the election trail and he visited Mallorca. Well actually he visited the Port of…
Richard Harding came to Majorca this week to celebrate his 80th birthday. Nothing unusual in that, you might think, many people come here for special occasions. What makes Richard stand out is how he was preparing to celebrate his special birthday. The celebration dinner was a given but a 3000 metre swim starting at 6…
