Welcome to Spanish Fiestas..
The internet can be a faceless world where anyone can pretend to be
anything they wish.
I'd like to use this page to give you a little background to myself and to
Spanish Fiestas to prove to you that we are real and that you can have every
confidence in dealing with us.
Background ...
My name is Gerry. I live in Southern Spain with my wife Kirsty. Originally
I'm from a town called Warrington in the north-west of England. In 1981 I went
to Lancaster University and graduated in Economics.
After some time travelling in Australia I went To Bristol University and
obtained a postgraduate teacher training certificate in Economics and Business
Studies which allowed me to move to Spain and take up my first post as an
Economics teacher in Mallorca.
In 1991 I became head of Economics at a British school in Madrid where I met
Kirsty. She was the computer teacher.
Birth of Spanish Fiestas ...
In September 1994 the travel bug was too strong and we left London
Gatwick for Kathmandu at the beginning of a year travelling around the world. It
was during this year that the idea of Spanish Fiestas arose.
Back in Spain a year later we set up an English language teaching business in
the village of Miraflores de la Sierra near Madrid which Kirsty ran while I got
a job in the Business Studies department of Madrid University.
After much preparation, our first Spanish Fiestas customers arrived in 1996
when we began offering cultural and sporting city breaks to Madrid and
Barcelona.
For the next five years we slowly expanded our city breaks and began offering
small group tours which included visits to the great Moorish cities of
Andalucia ... Granada, Seville and Cordoba.
Spanish Fiestas Today ...
In June 2001 we decided that it was time for me to work full time with
Spanish Fiestas as there simply wasn't enough time in a day to balance a
part-time travel business with a full-time teaching job.
We moved away from Madrid (I can't stand traffic jams as anyone who has
toured with me will testify!) to the south of Spain ...why be 5 hours from the
sea when you can be 5 minutes? One of the beauties of internet based businesses
is the geographical flexibility!
Today Spanish Fiestas is a private limited company which employs Kirsty
and I full time offering a whole range of travel related services in Spain.
An important development for us has been our growing involvement in event
ticketing especially for FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and the Spanish Grand Prix
which has attracted an increasing number of corporate clients who work with us
to organise incentive and hospitality events.
Philosophy ...
As a small, family run business we are able to offer our clients
outstanding personal attention from the first communication requesting
information until the completion of your private tour.
We cannot and do not attempt to compete with large-scale operators on the
basis of price but believe our competitive advantage lies in the quality of the
services we offer.
Many years of travelling around Spain have provided us with invaluable
knowledge of our destinations. We can recommend outstanding accommodation,
restaurants and things to do wherever we go as well as pointing you in the
direction of excellent local tapas bars not often discovered by tourists.
As a British owned and operated business our guests are catered for in
English so you need never fear that language will be any problem during your
stay (or when you ring the office!).
Should you have any further enquiries after browsing our website please do
not hesitate to contact us and we shall look forward to meeting you here in
Spain for a Spanish Fiesta.
Have you ever considered setting up your own online business?
We've been online since May 1998 and it's taken literally thousands of hours
of trial and error to get the Spanish Fiestas website to what it is today. I've
lost count of the number of ebooks I've bought and studied to help not only
create a good site but also to attract traffic to it. In addition I subscribe to
all kinds of internet marketing newsletters and have spent a small fortune on
useful software.
None of this is necessary any longer thanks to an integrated software package
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Anyone can now turn their interest into a profitable business. I wish it had
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Best Wishes ...
Gerry + Kirsty
I've had to remove the live link to our email addresses above in an attempt to
prevent bulk email software from adding us to their mailing lists. The amount of
SPAM we receive every day is out of control. You can contact us through the
link at the top of the page.
... and that's Mac in the foreground. He lets me know when I've been at the
computer too long and it's time for 'walkies'!
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