The Giovanni world of the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 20th March 2016 Giovanni is a very familiar name to ice cream lovers. The wonderful swirls of artistically arranged ice creams look and taste the same from wherever you buy them, the design is the trademark. Giovanni was…
The Kings Cake or Roscon de Reyes Did you get to wear the crown? The tradition on January 6th after the Kings arrival is to have a celebration family lunch. The dessert is always the Roscon de Reyes which is a round sweet bun like texture cake often split and filled with cream. Contained in…
The Port of Soller is a place of safety Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 10th January 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox When the weather turns and the sea becomes menacing outside our harbour wall the boats come in. On this side of Majorca, the Port of Soller is one of the few…
Soller loves its mountains Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 16th December 2014 Photographs by RACHEL FOX The International day of the Mountains was celebrated by the United Nations last Thursday and the theme of Mountain Farming was announced for the coming year. Statistics poured from their offices and we learned that this is an…
The Soller Valley is a stunning area nestled in the Tramuntana Mountains. Soller is an Arabic name meaning ‘golden bowl’ in reference to the masses of Oranges grown in the region. Shirley Roberts writes a brilliant weekly column on Soller for the Bulletin covering many interesting topics. I am not looking to steal the limelight…
Back to school and the start of the autumn term routine is just so hard for the children of the Hidden Valley and for the rest of Majorca. The twelve weeks of holidays where the learning experience has been far more beach orientated makes the discipline of this first term of the new school year…
Moving to Soller in MallorcaBy Shirley RobertsPhotograph by Rachel Fox Life in Spain is no longer an easy choice financially and employment opportunities for seasonal workers has all but dried up with many more local people taking those vacancies. The influx of people from The Peninsula (Mainland Spain) is almost non existent as they have…
The emigration of Solleriques in Europe in the XIX and XX th centuries Thursday, January 22, 2015 by Michael Waller Gelabert Reply to this article The emigration of Solleriques in Europe in the XIX and XX th centuries was the subject of many studies and publications. They settled in France and to a lesser extent in Germany and Belgium by opening…
The beautiful ladies asleep in Mallorcan Churches ‘The Assumption of the Mother of God’ is celebrated in Spainand is a very important religious day and a state Bank Holiday. Saturday August 15th 2015 is a BANK HOLIDAY. This means that all banks and offices will be closed and only a limited number of shops will…
This is what we do… Sollerweb was born 18 months ago and the roller coaster of events has been so breathtaking that sometimes we have to force ourselves to stop and take stock. Tracey Ivell, web designer of this parish bought the web name ‘Sollerweb’ in 2007 and knew one day when she would use…