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…
This was a daily look at the changes ‘Population’ decisions will make 2022-01-13 Palma By Shirley Roberts Life is upbeat in many respects as more work contracts are issued and building projects get underway. There is an air of optimism about the year and the worldwide comments about living with the virus seem to support…
The writers of the Soller ValleyThe skills, talent, art and self indulgence of writing are part of the fabric of life in the Soller Valley. Amongst our neighbours we have published authors and poets who make their living by their craft. We have film and TV writers by the dozen. We have hundreds of people who…
A tragic day in the life of the Soller ValleyThe events of this tragic week in Soller have been in the press, television and radio news on a daily basis. Life has to go on but there is an overwhelming sadness that permeates the place as so many lives have been touched. Listening to many…
Bellver International College – non-denominational, co-educational day school in Palma Founded in 1950, Bellver is the longest established privately owned British school in Spain. The college is situated close to the beach (opposite to the King of Spain’s summer palace) in a residential area 3 km from the centre of Palma in Mallorca. Bellver adopts…
Everyone is welcome in the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 28th April 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox Sometimes the Soller Valley has its moment and the eyes of the world are upon it. So it was this week when the Lewis Hamilton road show rolled into the Port of…
By Soller Shirley Every town and village in Mallorca has a Church building. The Cathedral is in Palma and is a place visited as a tourist and worshipper by thousands every year. In Soller the biggest Church is in the Placa, St Bartholomew – known locally as the ‘Cathedral of the Mountains’. It is not…
FERIA DE ABRIL 2016 29th April 2016 to 8th May 2016 Fifty years ago Mallorca was emerging into the world of mass tourism. Hotels were being built everywhere and an infrastructure created that could sustain it. 25% of the residents of Mallorca at the time were not born here. Many of them were economic migrants…
Changing times – Soller style Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 31st July 2017 Twenty years ago the Soller Tunnel opened. The road was blasted through the mountain and cars flowed freely as long as they paid the toll. This development was hugely controversial and…
By Shirley Roberts The North West coast of Majorca holds many treasures. From Valldemossa, the coast road to the Port of Soller is a journey of the world. Take that turn and the delights which Arch Duke Luis Salvador of Austria found here all those years ago remain and have been extended. The Archduke was…
