Concepción met us on arrival and was very informative about the neighbourhood. She kindly gifted us a bottle of wine. The apartment was exactly as described at her site, and by other visitors (except for 'quiet', which I will write about later). It was clean, had a well equiped kitchen, etc. Everything was within walking distance. Malaga is a wonderful place to visit, the food market is simply superb, and we cooked dinners for perhaps eight evenings. The train and bus services are excellent (we took a train to Ronda to stay there one night), and there are good bike rental facilities nearby (just down the road from the nearby supermarket). For anyone with an interest in the writings of Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey, a visit to their house in nearby Churriana (there's a frequent bus service) - just beyond the airport - is well worth while.

A decisive factor for us in deciding to stay here (for two weeks) was the frequent reference by earlier visitors to "quiet" or "very quiet", especially a mention by one "light sleeper". We like to keep our bedroom window open at night for air (even during the winter), but here it was not possible: there was sleep interupting noise from nearby late night drinkers (2AM, 3AM, ... , even 6AM), and even with the windows closed we could still hear. This wasn't just at weekends, but even other weekdays. Perhaps we wouldn't have noticed this had we only been there for two or three nights, but our loss of sleep over a two week period was very considerable.