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The Road To Sóller
The road between Palma and Sóller passes through the longest tunnel on the island with its 3,023 metres, if you wish to use the tunnel. When the tunnel was built under licence during the Nineties,...
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Port de Sóller
I went to Port de Sóller yesterday, trying to recapture a street scene that had been photographed in 1962 by Alfred Eisenstaedt, and later published by Life Magazine. Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995)...
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Trains To Sóller Will Be Suspended
Just in case you were planning to go to Sóller by train some time in December or January, and perhaps take some friends or visitors there, well, you can’t. Services on the Ferrocarril de Sóller will...
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We Requested Excuse The Annoyances.
This Pidgin English/German/French apology of a kind was found on the entrance to the Ferrocarril trains to Sóller station in Palma yesterday. In case you don’t get the message: train services from...
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Moorish Attacks in Sóller
450 years ago today, on May 11th 1561, some 2,000 Moorish intruders arrived in the Port de Sóller from Algeria, and their intentions were unfriendly, hostile and violent. The attack of marauding...
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From England to Mallorca by Way of Lisbon (Portugal)
Some of you may have travelled to Sóller by train. The route was unofficially opened 100 years ago this year, on October 7th, 1911 (the official inauguration did not happen until April 16th, 1912)....
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The Centenary Railway to Sóller
April 16th, 1912 was the date of the first ever train journey between Palma and Sóller. Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of that inaugural trip (see photo bottom). When the railway line was...
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A Thousand Roads to Sóller
I reckon that one does not really know Mallorca in all its beauty until one has been to Sóller and Port de Sóller. There are a thousand ways (well, not quite) of getting to that part of the island, a...
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Mountain Olympics at the Barranc de Biniaraix
Whilst the couch potatoes amongst us, including yours truly, were busy watching the London 2012 Olympics on the telly last Sunday, a few hundred Mallorcan men and women (and children and dogs)...
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