If you have time to give or money to donate they will be very glad to hear from you 2021-11-18 Palma By Shirley Roberts Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees and the Majorca Daily bulletin Shirley Roberts This time last year Sollerweb plus all major charitable contributors were concentrating on food. Locally we had a very…
Silk and sun in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 28th October 2014 Photograph by RACHEL FOX The story of Soller’s textile past is told in many places including Soller Museum . The factories that toiled away for 24 hours a day are part of a different era and consigned to the…
The magazine Marie Claire published an article last year on Malaysian cuisine and listed the top five Malaysian restaurants outside the country. Would it surprise you to know that Kopitiam in Soller is on that list? The only Malaysian restaurant in the Balearic Islands and one of the top five in the world is to…
A question or series of questions from our postbag answered by Barry Byrne Q: Are there any non-resident, but second home owner’s ID cards to prove we are more than tourists? Q: Can you be a part-time Spanish resident? Someone with all the rights and paperwork of a resident but who doesn’t live here enough…
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord at the Church of St Bartomeu, Soller This Sunday is Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord – a very important day for Christians throughout the world. On this day, we recall Jesus’ messianic entrance into Jerusalem before his crucifixion and the hero’s welcome his supporters gave him. They carried palm…
SOLLER – The Island within an Island in Mallorca had its own gas and electricity supply one hundred years ago.. Always ahead of its time and independent to the core – To be a Solleric was a respected status then and now… The company El Gas S.A. brought gaslights to Sóller in 1893. In 1908,…
THE FIESTAS OF THE SOLLER VALLEY Click on the link below for full information… http://www.sollerweb.com/fiestas.htmlThe Fiestas and celebration days of the Soller Valley give a form and tradition to the year. Everyone local knows what to expect of the Fiestas and what they are celebrating or commemorating. The Catholic Church calendar is the key to…
Room at the Inn – Soller stylePublished in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 26th December 2012 In December, twenty years ago a little miracle took place in Soller. The effects are still felt to this day and will go on as long as people have memories. If you cast your mind back to what was happening…
Our Humans of Majorca today starts with life in Liverpool in the 1940’s. Audrey and William represented the opportunities that the grammar school children of the era had. Accrington Girls High School for Audrey and the Liverpool Institute for William. This highly academic couple came from the cotton mills and the working background of the…
THE SOLLER YEAR IN FOCUS Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 29th December 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The page turns and a New Year begins this week. It is natural for me for writing purposes to have a hunt through the diaries and Facebook entries to check on the highlights of the year….
