Restored Mill with Large Private Pool
In Rural Location, 30 Mins from the Costa del Sol
Sleeps 8 (4 Bedrooms)
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A most beautifully renovated mill in Southern Andalucia, El Molino offers character and comfort: huge, cool reception rooms with wifi internet access, 4 bedrooms (all with en-suite facilities, 3 with very substantial bathrooms); a large pool (11m x 5m) with numerous patios and terraces on which to eat, drink, relax or enjoy the views out to the mountains at the back or down the valley towards Lake Vinuela. The house is on the edge of Guaro, named after the river (stream, really) that runs in front, and near the thriving market town of Periana in the Axarquia. This is rural Spain, even if it is only 30 minutes from the beaches of Torre del Mar and 50 minutes from Malaga airport and you will enjoy watching our neighbour Rafael taking his herd of 150 goats past the front patio twice a day.
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| Rental Period | Per Night | Per Week | Per Month | Min. Stay (Nights) |
| 1 January 2012 - 31 March 2012 | £350 | 7 | ||
| 1 April 2012 - 1 May 2012 | £450 | - | ||
| 1 May 2012 - 30 June 2012 | £600 | - | ||
| 1 July 2012 - 31 August 2012 | £750 | - | ||
| 1 August 2012 - 31 October 2012 | £600 | - | ||
| 1 November 2012 - 31 March 2013 | £350 | - |
Notes on prices
Prices are for the property per week in UK Pounds. Price includes a welcome pack including fruit and vegetable from the fields next door, wines, local ham and honey, cheese, eggs and so on. Wifi internet access is provided free of charge. A 15% car-hire discount can be arranged, if requested. Wood for the fires in winter can be purchased through the owners.
Changeover day
Saturday to Saturday. Arrival is after 4pm and departure by 10am. However, other arrival days will be considered.
Accommodation
| Bedrooms: | Bedroom 1 has an emperor size bed. Bedroom 2 has 2 single beds. Bedroom 3 has a double bed. Bedroom 4 has 2 single beds & is on the top floor of the house on its own (with no door to it). All bedrooms have en suite bathrooms & there are 2 cots. |
| Bathrooms: | En suite bathrooms: To bedroom 1 with a corner bath, bidet, wc and sink. To bedroom 2 with a shower, wc and sink. To bedroom 3 with a bath, wc and sink. To bedroom 4 with a wc and sink. The downstairs bathroom has shower, wc and sink. |
| Kitchen: | The kitchen is fully-fitted with integral hob and oven, fridge/freezer and dishwasher. It also has a microwave, juicer, toaster, sandwich-maker, a full range of pots and pans, etc, and high quality crockery and cutlery. In all, enough for serious cooking! |
| Utility Room: | The utility room downstairs has a washing machine and tumble dryer. It is also the downstairs bathroom, with a shower, toilet and sink. |
| Living Rooms: | The living/dining room is over 20m long with rustic tiled floors and 75cm thick walls, seats and sofas for relaxation, a fireplace, dining table and chairs for 10, satellite TV, writing desk, hifi - and a 'snug' off it with second fireplace and sofas. |
| Cleaning/towels/ linen/maid service: |
Towels and linen are included. The house is cleaned thoroughly between guests though cleaning mid-visit can be arranged. The pool is given attention at least twice a week. |
| Amenities/Facilities: | hob/stove oven fridge/freezer microwave dishwasher washing machine tumble dryer iron/ironing board satellite tv tv internet access cot high chair barbecue private pool (for sole use of guests) |
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Notes on accommodation
The house is perfect for families and has hosted quite a number (including the owners'!). It is safe and secluded, and it is possible to secure many places (e.g., the main patio) so small children cannot 'escape'. There are, of course, steps in different places which one has to be careful with. The house, being so old, was built with very thick walls (about 75cm). It is excellent for the summer, keeping out the heat and for the winter, keeping the house warm. In deepest winter (pleasant though that is!), there are 2 fireplaces downstairs, 1 of which provides heating to the master bedroom suite. There are also electric radiators which can help.
Accessibility
The house was reformed 9 years ago. However, it is over 200 years old and the prevalence of steps reflects this. All the sleeping accommodation is upstairs (though this can be reached directly from the outside by going to the back of the house up the hill). It is possible to park right outside the house.
Outside
The swimming pool is large for a private house being at least 11m x 5m. It is surrounded by a large patio with a stone ledge for seating running around half the pool, various sunloungers etc. There is a further patio overlooking the pool with a separate balcony where the views down towards the Lake Vinuela can be enjoyed even more fully. In the time of the last owners, there used to be swimming parties for 40 or 50 people who comfortably fitted around the house. Directly in front of the house is the main patio, a large area that has the barbecue and a table and 4 chairs (a further set of table and 4 chairs can be found on the patio overlooking the pool). This can be cordoned off. There are a number of pieces of garden around the property with walnut and apple trees, palms, flowers and so on. The house is flanked on 2 sides by streams and surrounded on 3 sides by fields which are used variously for grazing, tomatoes and olives.
Coast/Beach
Torre del Mar beach is about 30 mins away and is quite pleasant. A further 15 mins will take you to Nerja, a very pretty little town, with a number of very fine beaches and numerous places to eat.
Golf
Baviera golf course is about half an hour away and there is a full range of better quality courses just over an hour away on the other side of Malaga.
Skiing
The Sierra Nevada is an hour and a half away. It provides reliable and pretty reasonable skiing from December through to April (well, this is southern Spain!), so if you have ever wanted to ski in the morning, swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon and be back home for drinks in the evening, this is the place for you!
Travel
Malaga airport is about 50 minutes away. Granada is a little further but that can be compensated for in the ease of getting through it. Having a car is essential and if you are not driving all the way (and many people do!), you can hire cheaply from both airports (Malaga must have about the largest range of car hire firms in Europe). We have a link with one firm and can offer 15% discount on bookings. Please ask for details.
Distances
Periana is a market town and is 3km away - it will probably be the source of most of your banking, shopping, etc.
Velez-Malaga is 20km, Malaga 50km, Granada 85km, Alhama de Granada 20km, Nerja 40km.
Further details
Periana has small supermarkets and a full range of restaurants, bars, bakers, a fishmonger, butchers, a bank with an autoteller, a dentist (hope you don't need this one), pharmacies and a doctors' surgery.
There is a large supermarket being built 10km away at the 'cruce' of Puente Don Manuel where you can also avoid a large range of English shops (including 'fish'n'chips!), though the patisserie next to the 'English Shop' is Spanish and is superb and the butcher 'EmbuAxarquia' is the best around.
There is a hypermarket, Eroski, at the Centro el Ingenio at km272 of the Autovia del Mediterraneo (about 20km away), where you can select from an enormous range of food.
You will no doubt know about the joys of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, the exquisite Moorish quarter and mosque of Cordoba, the impressive cultural capital that is Seville and the imposing gorge at Ronda. You might even be looking forward to shopping and celebrity-spotting at Marbella (well, maybe not). However, there are other lesser-known joys you can experience near us; the Picasso Museum in Malaga (and the centre of Malaga is remarkably pretty), the beaches at Nerja, the hot springs at Alhama de Granada (try it in January with snow lying around you), the walks in the mountains behind the house.
Booking notes
Bookings can be made by e-mail below or phone at (UK) +44 7738 478 548. Reservations are for Saturday to Saturday occupancy (though other arrangements will be considered between September and May) and will be secured by a non-refundable deposit of 30%. The balance should be received by us at least 6 weeks before the start of the holiday.
Owner profile
the Collins family
About the owner
Ross and Lindsay Collins bought el Molino in 2005. The decision took about 5 minutes from our entering the house and we still regard buying it as the best thing we have done (bar 'producing' our children, Lucy and Ally, who themselves both adore the house). We are both priests, living and working in Dorset, where Lindsay is chaplain of Sherborne School. Ross is developing micro finance projects in Africa. For us, living in tied houses through work, it was important to acquire a bolthole - and somewhere we could retire to (a long way off!). We never thought, though, that we would find a place we would fall in love with and which, even now, is for all us just 'home'.
Year purchased: 2005
Why the owner chose a home in this location
Periana is relatively undiscovered by Southern Andalucian standards and very much retains the feel of a Spanish town. If you want fish and chips and a copy of the Daily Mail, you can pop 15 minutes down the road to Puente Don Manuel, but where we are, you are far more likely to find herds of goats crossing the road, groups of retired men sitting chatting in the square and small-holders selling peaches by the side of the road than hoards of ex-pats. The scenery is beautiful and our home nestles at the bottom of a valley with the river Guaro (a small stream in summer but you should see it in spate in the winter!) in front and 5,000 ft mountains behind. It's very quiet save for Rafael's goats trotting past twice a day and the odd farmer coming by and saying 'hola!'
Unique benefits of the property
Where do we start? Our neighbours' produce coming to our door? The space inside the house? The character of the property and its sense of history? The large bedrooms and huge bathrooms? The cool of the large pool in summer? Sitting on the patio under the walnut trees reading a book looking up every so often at the mountains? Being half an hour or so from the coast and yet in another world? The sense of seeing a form of life that goes back centuries? We truly believe el Molino is a special place and we love working with our guests to ensure the house is as special for them for a week or two as it can be.
For booking and further information
Property Ref S7908
Ross NF Collins
Tel: (UK) + 44 (0)7738 478 548
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