By Shirley Roberts and Tracey Ivell My Humans this week are made up of those who live, visit, have second homes, used to live here and everyone who remains connected. The Sollerweb site keeps all these people together as a global family and they engage with us every day. They use the Website, the App,…
The RAIXA ESTATE is on the other side of the Soller tunnel. 10 minutes from Soller and you are n a beautiful old world with many years of history. Raixa has been used as film sets many times particularly for Agatha Christie movies. This article has been written by Andrew Rawson of Mallorca Days Out…
To everything there is a season in Soller… Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 25th October 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The closed signs are being polished and fixed to the door of the first hotels to close their doors for the season. The early closers have the builders poised ready to rush…
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…
The Big Yuyu – The Blues for the Soller ValleyThe odd word here and there and then the rumble – you know how it is in a small community. The word was out that there was a great blues band in our midst and gradually we all started making our way to their weekly gig…
The Soller Valley welcomes autumn Today is the first day of the autumn season which will last for 88 days before giving way to winter on 21st December 2014. Autumn has started with welcome rain and a reshuffle of the hot humid weather of late. The walkers and cyclists arrived as usual in early September…
The Hidden Valley is not so hidden this week as the eyes of the cycling world, TV and Film crews descend for the Cycle race of the year. Team Sky and the training teams of cyclists are joined by more competitors as they race around the whole island in daily races. Sir Bradley Wiggins is…
Shirley Roberts All business minds in Mallorca are in a whirl this week. Our delegates to the World Travel Market in London are talking the talk of the delights of Mallorca. They are consolidating the ‘Brand’ they have been working on for months and in some cases, years. Sixty years ago when tourism grew, the…
All Change… On Sunday 25th October 2015 Today the change to the Village Life of the City of Soller really begins. The clocks have gone back meaning lighter mornings and darker afternoons and this heralds the Soller Valley in winter mode. Important Fiestas take place this week and are all part of the Church calendar….
By Soller Shirley At the weekend the clocks went back, and a new season began in the Soller Valley. This is the one that takes some getting used to as it ushers in the new chapter of the year. Many local people have completed their summer contracts and November begins the month of holidays. Some…
