Committed walkers and nature-lovers, this is for you. Mireia, an energetic former archaeologist, believes passionately in sustainable tourism and has turned her grandfather Leonardo’s inn resolutely towards her mission, with the help of her mother, husband and three young children, lovely people all. You will receive exceptional hospitality, eat fabulous homemade food and be guided towards superb Pyrenean foothill walking. The best? A hostal-to-hostal tour with luggage carried for you. The bedrooms are unusually attractive with colour, character and super bathrooms. And their old-style beds are good. Mireia’s personal touches make the communal rooms special: glass cabinets full of old, historical objects – toys, magazines, pharmaceuticals – show what the place was like as a working posada a hundred years ago; locals and family happily share today’s warm woody bar; the fire crackles. The B&B is a beacon of taste by the river in an unpretty village – and the mountain trails that take you through glorious nature are a five-minute walk away. Or explore the UNESCO-listed Romanesque churches of the Boi Valley.
If ever there is a place or person that embodies what I presume is Sawday's philosophy, it must be this house, with Mireia as guardian of traditional values, social, environmental, historical and cultural.