Soller Cemetery – More than a place of Eternal Rest – An Historical Monument ALL SAINTS DAY – 1st November 2014 It is said that you cannot understand the heart of Soller until you have spent time in its Cemetery. This is a five layered area more like a beautiful public park than a graveyard. …
HOLY WEEK – AS IT UNFOLDS By Debra Reynolds The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord followed by a procession Friday 3rd April – The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord takes place at 7.00 p.m. in the Parròquia de Sant Bartomeu in the square in Soller. This is followed by a procession of…
Ambassadors Follow Contact I am passionate about my project to mount my attractive, small , ceramic murals at the entrances of the beaches and bays along the coast of the island of Mallorca. They visually demonstrate the message to : Take your trash with you off the beach and place it in the trash…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 11th March 2014 The weather is the weather and living near the sea we are used to the sudden changes that take our world from calm to mayhem. Nothing could have prepared us for the perfect storm that we were to observe this week and it all…
Written by Debra Reynolds Our Religious Affairs Correspondent Sunday 27th March – Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Events in Soller at Parròquia de Sant Bartomeu in the square begin at 9.30 a.m. with the procession I described in my previous article on the brotherhoods and the processions. This is a very joyful…
THE UNESCO WORLD OF THE TRAMUNTANA Welcome to the Serra de Tramuntana in 2015 The Serra de Tramuntana has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO under the Cultural Landscape category. This is the international community’s acknowledgement of the near-perfect symbiosis between the action of human beings and nature, which has occurred for centuries,…
Eva Kircz and her exhibition in Can Prunera I am Jewish and have lived with the aftermath of war, loss and separation all my life. I was born after the war in Amsterdam to my mother who survived the war by just walking out. Then she just kept on walking. The rest of her family…
Life’s a beach on Sunday Morning…Have a look around if if you are heading to the beach today. Apart from all the milky white new arrivals who are desperate for the sun there will be all the little children covered head to toe in the sun avoidance suits. The English visitors have this market cornered and…
On top of the world at Can Topa To meet Paula and Damian Murphy By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 20th November 2016 The Tramuntana mountains of the Soller Valley enclose the City in its heart. The journey always begins with a decision to either go through the mountain and…
