BOAT RADIO sets sail from the Port of Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Sunday 8th May 2016 By Shirley Roberts Mike McDowall is a name you might have heard of if you are a lover of Radio, particularly Radio 4 and World Service. His career has spanned twenty-five years, beginning with hospital radio in…
September 2020 By Shirley Roberts My outings take me far and near and in the back of my head I have criteria I like to use. How much does the day cost is the first one? The majority of my trips cost a picnic lunch and petrol. The second one is who is in control…
The Soller valley has always had its share of interesting people and 2015 is a good year to remind ourselves some of the newer ones. Merie lives up the side of the mountain as you first come into Soller from the tunnel. She surveys this beautiful valley from a vantage point which means it is…
New York , Los Angeles and Soller The journey of Don Krim – Counter Tenor To chat with Don Krim in Soller square is like so many Hidden Valley conversations. A meeting of interesting, eccentric people who have fallen in love with Soller and all it has to offer and is the tie that…
Life goes on in the Soller Valley By Shirley Roberts Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 15th November 2016 Photographs by Rachel Fox In such a momentous week there was comfort in daily life just going on in Soller. Just two weeks ago we tried to have a debate here amongst the many…
Soller people come out to play Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 18th November 2014 Photographs by RACHEL FOX Mid November is an odd time in the Hidden Valley calendar. It’s when people we haven’t seen for months start to emerge and be part of café society. They are the hotel and restaurant workers…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – 13th May 2014 The organisation of the Soller Firo has to be seen to be believed. This is the major event of the year for Sollerics and the well oiled machine runs all year round preparing for these special dates in the calendar. It was all change for…
Mountains and Prawns in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 10th March 2015 Photographs by RACHEL FOX The beautiful weather of the past weekend brought everybody out. The beach and the Port of Soller were busy as was the City of Soller preparing for the big events of the Fiesta of the…
By Soller Shirley One question hitting the Sollerweb postbag currently is to do with the Ceremony. The majority of people marrying in Mallorca are having a Wedding Blessing. They do the legal civil ceremony in their home country. Some then choose to come to Mallorca and have a Wedding Blessing. Many prefer to use this…
Lorraine O ‘Brien is a business woman, charity fund raiser, daughter, sister, lover and friend. This is a lady who has had three lives in one and has still got a lot of living to do. A person who has never lost sight of her roots and the people that made her what she is…
