The Port of Sóller Radio Programme - Shirley and Tolo take the tram

Shirley takes a trip on the tram, from Sóller to the Port of Sóller, in the company of her friend and former tram conductor, Bartolomé Sastre, known to everyone simply as Tolo. Born in France to Sólleric parents, Tolo remembers well the tram – now among Mallorca’s most popular and celebrated tourist attractions – being used to transport munitions during the Francoist dictatorship. But he also remembers his grandparents using it to transport their vegetables to market, long before the tourists arrived in the Sóller valley. At times during this interview, there is background noise – the noise of the tram, of course - particularly at the beginning - but things settle down after a couple of minutes and this is a lovely interview that's well worth listening to. When not recording programmes for Boat Radio, Shirley is one of the driving forces behind SollerWeb.