June glooms and pleasures in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 6th June 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox June’s glooms are being felt by the Town Council of Soller as they are under siege on the subject of rubbish. Their state of the art rubbish machine has…
What happened to the Class of 2015? By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 19th January 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Valley receives a new intake of individuals and families each year. Some of them have spent many holidays here before deciding to relocate. Others have arrived because they have…
By Shirley Roberts Since 2003 the name Celebrity Magazine has meant something to the residents of Mallorca. Ken and Angie took their cameras and copy around the events and playgrounds of the island. They kept us amused with the antics of the Calvia centric crowd and published as often as they could. Life has moved…
My visit was to look for autumn leaves on the trees and I was not disappointed 2021-12-02 Soller By Shirley Roberts All pics by Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts It depends which side of the mountain you live on whether Bunyola is the centre of the universe or Soller Mark 2. The history of the Soller…
By Shirley Roberts Under the current rules I am allowed to go for a walk with a member of my family. This week we didn’t get in the car but just walked the walk of the faithful towards the Cemetery and beyond. This is a much loved walk when you know where you are going. …
Joan Rubio spent a long time in Soller…He was the Architect who worked with and was influenced by Gaudi. The facade of Sant Bartholomew church in Soller was his work as was the Bank of Soller building on the corner of the square. These are very well know examples of ‘Gaudism’ and bring the disciples of…
Mar 29 at 9:10 PM Welcome to our Soller world Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 31st March 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Valley has woken up to sunshine and Easter visitors. The supermarket car park is overflowing and the slow traffic behind pods of cyclists is a fact of life again. The…
Jackie Waldren reads the Prego By Shirley RobertsPhotographs by Rachel FoxPublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletin onSunday 21st December 2014 The annual celebration in Palma on 30th December of the Festa de L’Estendard is very important in the life of this Island . It commemorates the date in 1229 when Muslim power came to an…
Joan Bennàssar. The Road to Lluc. Shelters of Love and Good Will 2021-07-05 Palma By Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter “On the right side of love is the Beloved and on the left side is the Friend;and this is why, to reach his Beloved, the Friend has to go through love first.”Ramon Llull This last year a strange enemy has burned…
Christmas in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts The Christmas celebrations in this place are very local and Spanish with religious and family traditions attached to each of the celebration dates. Christmas Eve is very important and is when families gather for a celebration meal and a group visit to Christmas Mass at whichever church…
