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Travel Design with Colmeneras Collective
What you get
Your Trip, Your Way
How to Get Started
- A day-by-day itinerary with routes, drive times, and the lunch stops worth a detour.
- Where to stay, eat, and wander, from the famous sights to the village down the road.
- Holiday and festival timing, and what to book when (the Alhambra, for one, sells out months ahead).
- A scavenger hunt for the details most visitors walk right past.
- A trip tracker for your bookings, confirmations, and costs.
- One round of changes, so the plan fits the way you actually travel.
How to Get Started
Your Trip, Your Way
How to Get Started
- Book a free 15-minute call. We’ll talk about where you want to go and whether we’re a fit. If you book, your full planning call is included.
- Receive your itinerary. Your customized itinerary arrives in 7 to 10 days, built around the way you actually like to travel.
- Refine it together. My cost includes two opportunities to adjust until it fits your pace, your interests, and your budget.
- You go!
Your Trip, Your Way
Your Trip, Your Way
Your Trip, Your Way
Some people travel to see everything. Others travel to feel something: the plaza at dusk, the lunch that turns into the whole afternoon, the village nobody back home has heard of.
Every itinerary is built around how you like to travel, day by day, with realistic travel times, meals worth stopping for, what to book ahead, and a scavenger hunt for the details most visitors miss.
Tapa · 5 days · $500
Ración · 10 days · $1,000
Sobremesa · 15 days · $1,500
Spain and Portugal now. More of Europe soon.
I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There.
Planning Your Trip to Spain
Why I Plan
Planning a trip to Spain makes a lot of people nervous. Too many choices, unfamiliar roads, and a festival that books every hotel in town can be overwhelming. I love that part.
Having spent years living in Madrid, teaching English, and understanding the flow and vibrations of the city, I know how to move through it with ease. I've ridden the big red tourist bus in Barcelona, and I've followed friends through La Latina during the Paloma festival, past the crowds, to a small plaza where the retirement home was throwing its own party. Moments like these are what I plan for.
How I Plan
We start with a call about what you want from Spain, how fast you like to move, and whether you thrive in bustling cities or prefer somewhere quieter. Not everyone is a big-city person.
Next, I build a daily itinerary, from drive times to the lunch stops worth a detour, with a flag on anything you'll need to book in advance, like the Alhambra. When there's a trade-off, such as a night by the sea or a flamenco show, I lay out both sides and you choose
You get a tailored plan, and you make the bookings. That keeps my rates low, since booking on your behalf would bring legal fees I'd have to pass along to you. It also keeps every reservation in your name and under your control.
My Travel Philosophy
How I Travel
I travel the way Bill Bryson writes: curious, mostly on foot, and ready to laugh at myself, especially when I'm lost. I eat the way Anthony Bourdain did: where the locals eat, whatever they're having, at their table if they'll have me. And I follow the old rule: take only pictures, leave only footprints.
In practice, that means walking a city before riding past it. It means a tinto de verano in a neighborhood plaza instead of a chain café, family-run restaurants over tourist menus, a few words of the language, and choosing hotels and family-run guesthouses over short-term apartment rentals. Every itinerary I build works the same way. You'll get the Alhambra, but you'll also discover the village down the road where a stranger may become a new friend.
