My family and I loved staying at this house for 2 nights and with Maite. It was a unique experience. We were made very welcome despite our late arrival due to unexpected delays at the airport.

The first phrase that came from my daughters mouth was 'Muy tranquilo', which it was here in abundance.

Maite retrieved us from the dark street and welcomed us in to her home and prepared us a delicious mouth-watering snack with corgette, ham, egg and cheese. The rest of our short 2 night stay was filled with just as enjoyable memories.

Maite's home is a work of art, a lovingly converted farm building. The restoration and style, including furniture, pieces of art are as unique as our experience here was. It needs to be seen to be fully appreciated.

My children were made extremely welcome and were delighted at the number of rabbits which they were gladly allowed to enter the cage of and handle.

Maite's dog, a gentle Golden Retriever snoozed in the garden whilst Maite left us to tend the barbecue when she went to get some supplies from the shop for an evening meal. She made us some typical Catalan dishes - by far the most formidable and favourite meal we had during our entire 2 week stay in Catalonia.

I was entrusted with cooking the meat and when I naively asked for fire-lighters for the barbecue Maite simply nipped across the road to gather some sticks from under a tree! We are lazy in the city - I had forgotten this basic skill and thank Maite for the gentle reminder of how to make a fire!

A member of Maite's family took us to the nearby gorge on our second day, which we never would have found in any guide book, they showed us to the supermarket.

This was a perfect welcome to Catalonia and forced us to slow our pace right down after a hectic year in the UK - to a suitable speed with which to commence the rest of our holiday that was on a campsite in Sa Riera, Begur.

As each member of my family has contributed to this review I cannot neglect to mention that my youngest liked the toilet seat in the bathroom!

We all were so calm, happy and slightly enchanted after our stay with Maite.

Muy muy tranquilo. Moltes gràcies.