Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 8th April 2014 The mountains and the seashore are our playgrounds here in the Hidden Valley but it isn’t quite enough. We need parks, meeting places, children’s playgrounds, running tracks and football pitches. In embryo we have them all but problems are attached to each one and…
The Georgie Insull Singers – an inside story… Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinSunday 2nd November 2014Photographs by RACHEL FOX Georgie arrived in Majorca after travelling the world with her naval husband. Teaching in Australia and other places the Navy took them to gave her vast experience of releasing musical talent in choirs and…
From Putney Bridge to Soller – a story Published in the Majorca Daily bulletinSunday 16th November 2014Photograph by Rachel Fox Every year the stories are plentiful of the people who arrive in the Soller Valley with all their dreams in tact. They have arrived to live and work here and they alternate between excitement and…
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photographs by RACHEL FOXThe history of Majorca is written by cleverer, more knowledgeable people than me. My contribution is really a question about the basics of our incomer’s lives. Do we really understand what makes this place tick or the significance of some of the events that has made Majorca what it is today?For instance take…
This Church began its life, in this location, in 1866 2022-01-06 Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Christmas, New Year, Covid and Three Kings all in the space of four weeks. Our family Covid Christmas will be filed in the Christmas Memory box under the ‘Do not repeat’ category. However it does give me great sympathy…
Soller is not a village or town it is a CITY A straw poll of Soller visitors and residents were asked this week what they knew about the status of Soller. Is it a town , village or even a City? The answer to this like so many of Soller’s questions can be found in…
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…
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BELMOND LA RESIDENCIABelmond La Residencia in Deià is among the best 100 holiday retreats worldwide in the 18th Annual BILANZ Hotel Rating.Bilanz is the prestigious leading Swiss business magazine covering all facets of economic affairs. Every year it publishes a review on hotels worldwide and Belmond La Residencia features as one of…
Valley View photograph by RACHEL FOXI have been having fun with words this week and it all started with a visit to a special lady in Deya who is the subject of a future interview for this paper. We were discussing the ‘Hey Day’ of Deya and talking of ‘back in the day’ of Soller…
