Adel San Roque

Life here begins with the fairways. San Roque Club runs two courses and the Old Course sits at the end of the garden, close enough that the buggy bay outside your front door earns its keep. Beyond the gates, the pace is deliberately quiet. Playa de La Alcaidesa is roughly five kilometres away, about ten minutes by car and the nearest beach club is a twelve-minute drive for a long lunch with sand underfoot.

Sotogrande marina is fourteen minutes away, which puts the berths, the waterfront restaurants and the polo and equestrian season within easy reach of an ordinary weekday. A gym sits nine minutes from the development and there is a tennis club a quarter of an hour out. Practicalities are close too: a health centre within twelve minutes, the San Roque to La Línea station around twenty and Gibraltar airport reachable in under half an hour for flights to the UK.

The climate does the rest. Average highs of 20°C and lows of 14.5°C across the year mean the terrace works in February as readily as it does in June and the private garden becomes the room the family actually lives in.