Sóller – The Mallorca Photo Blog

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 […]

History

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 […]

Events

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 […]

Daily Life

From England to Mallorca by Way of Lisbon (Portugal)

Some of you may have travelled to Sóller by train. […]

Customs & Traditions

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 […]

Daily Life

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 […]

Mallorca

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 […]

Daily Life

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 […]

Mallorca

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 […]