How Tarifa Holidays was born...

It was one of those rainy days in the Netherlands when the four of them met for the first time.
In April 2004 Barry and Martina had to deliver a sculpture to Jolanda and Peter as they were about to move to Tarifa Spain and still had some space available in their removal truck. That sculpture had to be delivered to Zoë, who was already living in Tarifa and has a boutique hotel/guesthouse named Dar Cilla and turned out to be a communal friend of both couples. It is a small world.

That it is a small world became even clearer when both couples met again in Tarifa. One was settling in, and the other one was on a short break to look if they could follow the same dream. Both couples had the same goal “live your dream, instead of dreaming your life” so within 2 months after that rainy Sunday afternoon they were all having a glass of wine in Tarifa and talking about their future.

Jolanda was first running a Cortijo called El Aquilon – an upmarket farmhouse with 7 suits in the countryside outside Tarifa and now uses El Aquilon among others to organise weddings - www.wedding-in-tarifa.com and the villa is also for rent for your holidays.

Martina is running Zoë's guesthouse Dar Cilla and Barry did a project on Montenmedio Golf and Country Club on improving the service level, internal communications and marketing.

While living in Tarifa many friends and family visited the four. They helped everybody with searching for the best accommodation, the cheapest car rental, the best kiteschools, where they could go horse riding, which restaurants they would recommend, which guide they should use for their trip to Morocco and so on.

Until one day Barry and Jolanda got together and said:
“What if we would use all these experiences we have had with friends and family for everybody who likes to spend their holidays in Tarifa.”

And so Tarifa Holidays was born…

Hope to see you in Tarifa,

Team Tarifa Holidays