By Soller Shirley The world of work concerns my brain today. I have been observing as friends, changing jobs in 2025, are negotiating on terms I would never have thought would happen. In my working life employment experiences have been in the corporate world, family-owned businesses and in my own company. All of them required…
Fiestas, dates and muddles in the Soller Valley Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 21st March 2017 The countdown begins to Easter and then the monthly fiestas in the Soller Valley. So much work goes on behind the scenes to ensure that all events are…
Soller moves into 2015 Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 6th January 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox Local news is often in short supply during the extended holiday period as it is assumed that people are too busy with their own celebrations to want to keep up to date. So in this context it is…
Mary Lynn Gadosh Ohio to Soller – one way… Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Lynn Gadosh Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 4th December 2016 Lynn Gadosh is a name that many people of Majorca are familiar with. She turned up in Soller thirty years ago and stayed. Her early life was…
Photographs of Soller and Fornalutx The Eyes of Time (Ulls dels Temps) Mallorca 1956 – 1970 photographs by Tom and Cordelia Weedon is an exhibition that captures a way of life that was on the cusp of change before tourism took off. Tom’s photographs are some of the last photographs he took before he died…
The busy January world of Soller Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 20th January 2015Photgraphs by Rachel Fox The people of Soller reclaim their City in January. They are glad to share their fiestas with visitors but essentially it is the the locals time to celebrate the fiestas of the Church calendar that have been with…
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…
Mar 29 at 9:10 PM Welcome to our Soller world Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 31st March 2015 Photographs by Rachel Fox The Soller Valley has woken up to sunshine and Easter visitors. The supermarket car park is overflowing and the slow traffic behind pods of cyclists is a fact of life again. The…
Ronald was an adventurer from the Netherlands. I say was, because these days he is to be found in downtown Soller living a busy productive life. Even adventurers have to find their place in the universe in the end. He left his native Netherlands when he was 23 and headed for the world of South…
The first UK FOLK FESTIVAL is coming to Mallorcathis weekend… 23rd to 27th April 2016at the BH HOTEL, MAGALUF We are very excited to share with you the daily programme for the FIVE DAY event in Magaluf. The programme is subject to alteration but in outline will look like our poster. Dancing, music, Ceilidhs and…
