What will it look like?

It is nice that we know we want to go to Spain, but then came the hard part. What do we really want. How do we envisage our bed and breakfast. And of course what is feasible!

We first focused on what we would like to have, and ended up with the following "demands". We want to have privacy even though people are sharing our space. So we have to have our own house, the guests need to stay in a seperate building. This creates a bit more distance but also gives us both, the guests and us, the opportunity to have time on our own and relax when needed. We think it would also be nicer for Anna, our daughter, because she can still have one-on-one time with her parents without other people hanging around.

In that seperate building we would like to establish 6 studios so the guests have the opportunity to prepare their own meals as we are not planning to offer dinner (at least not straight from the start). It is also nicer for the people who decide to follow a languagecourse so they're not obliged to eat either with us or in a restaurant. Of course we don't mind to eat with our guests so we do want to organise BBQs or Spanish Paella nights.

Now we know what kind of accomodation we want to offer. Time to think about the facilities needed for the language courses. We would like to offer Spanish and English courses with a maximum of 12 students at a time. The reason we have this maximum is that Ellen will teach the courses. When we have enough applications to start a second group we might need to hire an extra teacher but at the beginning Ellen will do it on her own. It does mean she needs to go back to university to get her degree in Spanish, but anything for our dream!!

As you can see we have enough ideas and throughout the process new ones are added or old ones are changed/deleted. This will probably not change the following five years, because we think a plan like ours is a dynamic plan and something that we need to keep developing!