Etherna Homes Phase II

The first tee at Azata Golf is roughly 600 metres from the door and Estepona Golf a little over two kilometres beyond, so a round before lunch requires no more planning than finding your shoes. Casa del Club sits about 400 metres away for whatever follows. The nearest beach is 2.6 km down the hill, five minutes by car, with the naturist strand at Costa Natura just past it. Puerto Estepona and its fish restaurants are eight minutes.

Day to day, the practical things are close. Aldi and Mercadona are both around five minutes, a pharmacy the same and the Hospital de Alta Resolución de Estepona four minutes away. The tennis and padel club is a quarter of an hour east. Gibraltar and its runway lie some 34 km down the coast, Málaga around 69 km in the other direction, which makes this a manageable weekend proposition from northern Europe rather than a summer-only house.

Then there is the weather, which is the quiet reason people buy here. Average highs of 21.6C and lows of 15C across the year mean the terrace stays in use through February and the south orientation holds the light from morning until the hill takes it.