The villa and casita housed four couples and four young children easily. The bathrooms and showers were excellent.The air conditioning and large wooden propeller ceiling fans kept both places cool. The pool is larger than it appears in the photo and was very popular with everyone. A massive pergola ,fully cushioned and pillowed, was a wonderful place to read or snooze in the heat of the day. There are also great deck beds and huge umbrellas. The grounds are extensive and regularly maintained by gardeners.
On the verandah is a long table and chairs, and also a sofa and armchairs which we used at breakfast lunch and early evening.
We tended to eat supper indoors at the long mess table with benches to avoid the dusk mosquito attack.
There is a car port for three vehicles close .with enough ground to park several more.
The villa is an easy ten minute drive from Vejer and 20 minutes for Barbate beach. The latter is safe for children as the beach shelves very gently. into the sea.
There is also wonderful outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture ust down the road.
Wim, who managers the place, if he does not mind me saying so, looks like a younger version of Richard Branson, with the same cheerful verve He couldn't have been more helpful .He lives very nearby and ,genie-like, appears almost soon as you need him.
The only potentially serious problem was the frequent power cut outs, as the villa is at the end of the line for electricity, and the power company have not provided sufficient cabling; but once Wim had shown us how to put it back on,ythe problem dwindled/
The views of the low laying hills surmounted by Vejer across the fields are superb. The sunsets are great. The cattle who browse the local fields add additional tranquility to a beautiful pastoral scene.
