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. …
The story of the indomitable Elena Davis has been told a few times in the past. Usually as she approaches yet another milestone birthday! Here we are again for soon in 2015 Elena will be 100 and is looking forward to the celebrations she has planned for this special day. My Elena is a…
Summer Schools in the Soller Valley The school holidays in Mallorca start around the 19th June 2015 and the autumn term starts mid September 2015. This means that students in schools in Mallorca have a twelve week summer break. This is a challenge for most families where the parents are working flat out as it…
Soller Web – ‘Made in Soller’ Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Web story began over ten years ago with the relocation of a group of families to the Soller Valley . They arrived with their ideas, businesses and children to make a new life in the Tramuntana. A web designer here, a writer there,…
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…
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…
By Rachel Fox Pics by Rachel Fox Legend has it that Robert Graves chose Mallorca as his home partly on the advice of Gertrude Stein… “Majorca is a paradise – if you can stand it”, she said. Mallorca became my paradise when I moved here 18 years ago, but now we are hanging on to our…
North London to North Mallorca Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 17th July 2016 Matthew Dean is a relocater and arrived in the Soller Valley twelve years ago with Jay, his wife and two daughters. He is one of those people who was introduced here by his wife’s family who had a holiday home…
Community life in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 18th July 2017 Photographs by Rachel Fox We are half way through 2017 and every month we celebrate a Fiesta or a religious occasion. There will be parades, programmes and the involvement of hundreds and sometimes thousands of…
Tommy is a Human of Mallorca in every sense, except birth 2021-08-12 Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Shirley Roberts When Mallorca was young, the land was divided into the Possessions of the Nobles. Allocations were made of the land according to how skilled the generals were in battle. In tourist times the island divided up according to the decisions…
