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…
Behind the shutters of the Soller Valley Written by Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 16th February 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The village houses of our area are wonderful delights for the imagination because you just don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors. The huge imposing wooden doors are often…
By Soller Shirley The question people who relocate always consider, is whether they will live in a place full of the language they have left back home. In Soller there are 13,500 residents (approx.). The last count I saw states that there are 2000 foreigners (born in a foreign country) in that number Incomers have…
A question or series of questions from our postbag answered by Barry Byrne Q: Are there any non-resident, but second home owner’s ID cards to prove we are more than tourists? Q: Can you be a part-time Spanish resident? Someone with all the rights and paperwork of a resident but who doesn’t live here enough…
RV BONNIE LASS Bonnie Lass was built in 1949 on the east coast of Scotland. Her life was that of a wooden framed working fishing boat. She caught herrings and dredged for scallops in Scotland and then fished for Salmon in the beauty of Northern Ireland before becoming a museum piece in the Maritime Museum…
A Human of Majorca By Shirley Roberts Most of us in Majorca know Bianca. She is one of the beautiful faces behind Radio One Mallorca. At least she was, until she gave up her flat, left her job and headed off with a backpack into the great unknown in December 2019. Hang on a minute…
By Shirley Roberts on 17th September 2022 A market is a market is a market except when it a Mallorquin market. At heart they are for local people to see and be seen and to conduct weekly business. Mobile phones and computers on the go are a feature of life here as everywhere else but…
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…
Soller resembles Switzerland – occasionally… The story of February 2012 is written in Soller folklore. It tells the tale of a date when the Soller Tunnel closed because it was simply too dangerous to get through and down the mountain by car. The City was marooned for a few hours because of the snow…
Easter Sunday and the Resurrection Written by Debra ReynoldsOur Religious Affairs Correspondent Sunday 5th April 2015– Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Events in Soller at Parròquia de Sant Bartomeu in the square begin at 9.30 a.m. with the procession I described in my previous article on the brotherhoods and the processions. This…
