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Restaurant L´Atelier Mecina: Yum. (if it´s open)

Yes, yes, YES! Just when we were about to give up on eating out in La Alpujarra, we finally managed to score a table at vegetarian restaurant L´Atelier in the Alpujarran village of Mecina Fondales. We´d passed the restaurant a number of times and it was always closed. When I emailed last week for a [...]

Chateau de Lantic: don´t bring the dog!

Once again, allowing a dog and being petfriendly are two very different things. I do get it, pretty castle, don´t want to see it wrecked, but hey, you can just say No to dogs, right? Once you say Pets are allowed, you can´t get all hot and bothered when people actually do bring a pet.
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Park Hotel El Born Barcelona: Perfect!

You can´t sit on a mountain contemplating goats all of the time, so I met up with my best friend in the El Born district of Barcelona for an old fashioned girly weekend of cocktails, shopping, tapas and possibly some more cocktails.
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Cafe Fa Re in Ferreirola: cute!

Ferreirola in La Alpujarra is such a tiny, sleepy village it´s easy to walk through it without noticing all the stuff that´s, quietly, going on. I say walk, because there´s no way you can accidentally drive through Ferreirola. It´s quite a long, difficult way to get there and the road ends here. Rather romantic, I [...]

Hotel Chateau Du Clos De La Ribaudiere: LOVE the food

Chateau Du Clos De La Ribaudiere is in a good location, for us anyway, right near the highway on the route from Spain to Paris in Poitou. And they served some of the best food I´ve had in a long time!
The village of Chasseneuil is nothing special, though we did have rather a nice lunch [...]

Hotel El Hidalgo in Valdepeñas; just keep driving!

When travelling with a puppy your hotel options are limited, especially in Spain. Still, Hotel El Hidalgo is not an option I´d recommend. It´s situated right smack on the high way, which is convenient when you´re trying to get to France, but rather depressing as well. Ok, let´s be honest: this place is a dump.
“petfriendly”
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Finding a Hotel with Actual Wifi Internet in Spain

Travelling around in Spain a lot, you start noticing stuff. The way they write “lively” when they mean “right above a rock club”, the way “charming” usually means “dump”, that kind of thing. And then there are the blatant lies!”Wifi is free and available in the entire hotel” is one my favorites.
Yeah, right! Free it [...]

Top 5 things to pack when staying in a hotel

The past few months we´ve basically been living in one hotel or another, either on business or on the run from the freezing cold of La Alpujarra. You gotta love hotels: they generally have central heating, hassle free internet and yay, they clean your room every day!
We were planning to buy a house around here, [...]

Taking your dog to a hotel

Luckily, the Lord invented coffee!
Madoff’s first night in a hotel was rather hellish. 
We’d been staying in a lovely, pet friendly, b&b for three days and all was fine. It was just us staying there so we weren’t bothering anyone, and on the whole Madoff behaved very well.
Then we went to Malaga to Las Acacias. Also [...]

La Escuela Crujia b&b – Velez-Malaga

 
Cheap, cute and pet friendly!
As the owner of a young puppy, I have to look for pet friendly places to stay. Most hotels are not to keen on pets, but you may have more luck with hostals and b&b’s.
La Escuela Crujia not only allows you to bring a pet, they actually welcome it! It’s probably [...]