Mid-term Break...all booked online

Not to gloat, but we are taking a break next week and heading to Spain.

We booked the entire trip online and saved ourselves a huge amount of money. It all started with Ryanair (not my favourite airline, I admit, but they are cheap and they fly from Edinburgh!). We checked all the destinations available at this time of the year and found that we could fly to Alicante direct.

Although the Costa Blanca has negative connotations for many, we decided to see what there was inland. One of our favourite travel websites is Responsible Travel. It proved to be a good starting point as they feature environmentally sound holiday options all over the world. In fact, the accommodation in the Alicante area turned out to be unsuitable, but it helped to define the area we wanted to go to....and we started Googling.

Our luck was in and we struck gold with La Murta....and now we are off to spend a week in the mountains some kilometres inland from the coast.

Not only did we find well-priced and unusual self-catering accommodation, but through La Murta's informative website were also able to hire a car very reasonably too.

So, we're all set. Now all we have to do is find time to do our packing.....