Things have been a little stressful recently so we were glad to have the holiday which here is called El Pont de L’Immaculada. Pont means bridge and the name comes from the fact that there is a public holiday on December 6th as well as December 8th  so the middle day, the pont, is also taken off.

Without any hesitation we decided to head for the hills.
North of Vic and before you reach the Pyranees there is an area called Llaers which is not as well known as other places and so even at this pre christmas holiday it was very quiet.

The Hotel de Serra is very simple, very relaxed, very welcoming to Springer Spaniels, and very peaceful.
The area is full of oak woods and the floors and beams in the hotel are old oak.  There are lots of little nooks with log fires which invite you to spend the evening reading or playing cards.

The food was very basic – chunky bread, hot soups, goats cheese, country sausages for breakfast and large carafes of strong red wine.

Outside they have goats and ducks and geese and peacocks.

Calm confident dogs potter about and there are cats in the barns.

There are walks to nearby castles and when you come home it is the sort of place that doesn’t care about a little mud on the stairs from your boots. I think it was Duna’s best holiday EVER!