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Spring Time for Trip Planning in Spain

Spring Flowers in a Basket

As you may, or may not, know, I love trip planning. Not only do I offer trip planning in Spain services which compliment the portfolio of gorgeous place to stay – Only Spain ~ Boutique Hotels and B&Bs. Of course you don’t have to stay in any of the properties on here. There are many, […]

Where is and What is Andalucia and Which Boutique Hotel to Choose?

Generalife, Alhambra

Many people say to me ‘I love Spain and Andalusia’ but when I quiz them a little more I find that they don’t know much at all about Andalusia. Or is it Andalucia? So, here is a little about where and what Andalucia is. Andalucia is the Spanish spelling and Andalusia is the English way […]

Cordoba, Spain Full of UNESCO Sites

The Mezquita and its Arches

Cordoba is full of UNESCO sites. It isn’t as popular to visitors as Barcelona or Sevilla yet has more UNESCO listings than either of them and more than anywhere else in the world. With the addition of the Medina Azahara in 2018 Cordoba now has four UNESCO sites which takes Spain’s total number inscribed on […]

Five Fabulous Boutique Hotels in Andalucia for Great Walking Holidays

Cortijo Sabila

Andalucia in the south of Spain is a great destination for walkers and hikers, having numerous mountain ranges providing no end of great walking country.  We’ve paired up superb scenery with  five of our gorgeous boutique hotels for some of the best destinations in Andalucia for walking holidays. Whether you prefer a serious hike or […]

Amberlair

Amberlair

Have you heard of Amberlair project – a crowd sourced Boutique Hotel?  They are creating the world’s first crowd sourced Boutique Hotel? It’s  great  fun to follow their progress with the first hotel to being based in the south of Italy. Pop over to their website and follow its progress. The Amberlair website features many boutique […]

Only Spain Boutique Hotels on Other Sites

Finca la Fronda

As you probably know I sometimes write about the gorgeous hotels and Bed & Breakfast properties from this Only Spain portfolio on my blogs Andalucia Explorer and Luxury Spain Travel but did you know that I also write for other sites at times? I’ve recently written about the lovely Finca La Fronda  both on Luxury Spain Travel […]

January Birthdays

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At the end of January (hubby’s birthday) and a very cold weekend we found ourselves heading  to the coast in hope of good or at least better weather than our inland mountain home was forecast to have. My choice of getaway was the lovely Miller’s of Frigiliana. I’ve written about it on our sister site Luxury […]

The Closing of a Year

Finca la Fronda

With 2018 coming to a close I’m looking backwards and forwards. It’s been a challenging and exhausting year taking in an aging relative. It’s for this reason we haven’t travelled much and explored as many new hotels and B&Bs as we would have liked to. In fact this year we only managed to visit two […]

Wedding Venue Hotels in Spain

Wedding in Spain

With its 300 and more days of sunshine a year it makes perfect sense to have your wedding in a hotel in Spain, especially the south – Andalusia. But the mind blowing job of deciding where can be very daunting. For that reason when we built the sitemap of Only Spain Boutique Hotels (and B&BS) […]