Moving around the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 30th June 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Fiesta of San Pere marks the change in the calendar that many people love in Soller. It is the sign that summer has really started and we can party and stay up late until autumn. …
A Humans of Majorca story By Shirley Roberts The return to work and a near normal life is evident here this week. Some have used the time to rethink their business plan to embrace legal and voluntary change. Socially distant tables and number restrictions inside premises have been a challenge. These rules will be our…
Olives of Mallorca Written by the Consel of Mallorca – Agriculture DivisionPromoted by Capsvespre of Soller The cultivation of the olive tree in Mallorca is one of the most traditional and dates back to pre-Roman times. During the Roman period (123 BC-465 AD) is to improve the technique of olive cultivation. In the writings of…
No 11 on the Times Newspapers list of 50 best hotels in the Med 2015 Set within a classical 100 year-old mansion house designed by one of Gaudi’s protégés, L’Avenida is in the centre of beautiful Soller, two minutes from the bustling town square, yet surrounded by the towering peaks of the Tramuntana mountains. L’Avenida…
DID YOU KNOW – You can vote in UK elections for 15 years after relocating to Spain You can register online at .https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Before you start make sure you have 1. Your last address in the UK including full post code 2. Your National Insurance Number 3. Your Passport Number. The vote you are granted…
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…
Vall I Art deserves its place next to the Museum of modern Art By Shirley Roberts on 29th April 2021 By Shirley Roberts The Port of Soller has created its first space for ‘Itinerant Art’. The site is around the Antoni Montis roundabout in the Port of Soller. Local man Tofol Colom is the first artist to place…
Soller, the Radio and the McDowall family By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 9th August 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Mike McDowall master plan started in Carlisle with a career in Town Planning on the radar. A diversion into a hobby of presenting Hospital Radio changed all…
New York , Los Angeles and Soller The journey of Don Krim – Counter Tenor To chat with Don Krim in Soller square is like so many Hidden Valley conversations. A meeting of interesting, eccentric people who have fallen in love with Soller and all it has to offer and is the tie that…
Soller people come out to play Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 18th November 2014 Photographs by RACHEL FOX Mid November is an odd time in the Hidden Valley calendar. It’s when people we haven’t seen for months start to emerge and be part of café society. They are the hotel and restaurant workers…
