It took Joan Gallagher and her husband three years to renovate a six-storey building in Spain’s Priorat wine region. But they had to do something after the children left home
Joan Gallagher and her husband, John, used to enjoy weekend walks through Spain’s Priorat wine region, driving out from their home in Sitges, Catalonia. They had moved to Spain from Ireland in 2001; two years ago they opened a hotel in the former creamery next door to where they used to stay.
Their four boys “were grown up and doing their own thing. I thought, ‘I don’t want to retire – don’t want to sit back on my laurels and do nothing. John and I like to keep busy,” says Joan, 66.
