The world seems an easier place when you are walking amongst great beauty 2022-01-20 Palma By Shirley Roberts The walks of Mallorca are well catalogued and the decision to create the routes 221 and 222 were inspired. Eventually, using these routes a walk around the whole of Mallorca will be possible. Of course, for such…
Sian Mackay tells a story of War, Resistance, Art and Love in Von Ripper’s Odyssey Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 25th September 2016 by Shirley Roberts Sian Mackay is a writer and a long time resident of the Soller Valley. She has held many publishing roles including several years as a freelance journalist for…
By Shirley Roberts I don’t play golf but, if I did, I can see the beauty in the course of Alcanada. How the golfers aren’t put off by the magnificent scenery all around them I will never know. ‘Alcanada Golf’ to me means weddings and fine dining, but this was not our destination today. This…
Today I am responding to kind readers who have asked me for ideas for a trip to London. My Nan’s Days Out take place in all sorts of sites from Majorca to Cornwall to London. London is the one many want to know about apart from the huge interest in our adventures round Majorca. London…
The life and times of Tomeu Deya Canals in 2023 By Shirley Roberts How many people in this world can trace their heritage back to 1561? How many people still live in the same village and work the same mill from those times? How many people started their education in the Institute in Soller and…
From Friday 13th March to Wednesday 25th March 2020 The diary of living with a virus in the Soller Valley 2020 Friday 13th March 2020 Children will go to school this morning and learn how remote learning is going to work for them. Two weeks of school closures will be joined by two weeks of…
By Shirley Roberts Sunday 23rd August 2020 Raixa is located 15 minutes from Soller. Signposted to the right when the main road turns into serious pot holes and bumpy track. Coaches of the ‘great and good’ use this route to get to Raixa for important Consell conferences. Difficult to understand why they haven’t sorted the…
Diamonds were the friends of the press that gathered in the Belmond La Residencia this week. We marvelled at the beautiful, subtle diamond jewellery presented to us by Vanessa Tugendhaft. An A list of celebrities led by Madonna have been seen wearing her pink string band with the diamond in the middle. This is diamonds…
RV BONNIE LASS Bonnie Lass was built in 1949 on the east coast of Scotland. Her life was that of a wooden framed working fishing boat. She caught herrings and dredged for scallops in Scotland and then fished for Salmon in the beauty of Northern Ireland before becoming a museum piece in the Maritime Museum…
Soller resembles Switzerland – occasionally… The story of February 2012 is written in Soller folklore. It tells the tale of a date when the Soller Tunnel closed because it was simply too dangerous to get through and down the mountain by car. The City was marooned for a few hours because of the snow…
