Together with my wife I spent three months in Málaga. Spending a sabbatical leave from my university or doing remote work I used my time by reading, writing, visiting art museums, cycling, eating well and just strolling or “flaneuring” through the inspiring streets and corners of the town.

The apartment offered good framework for all this, starting from the opposite side of the street: one of my daily routines was that I climbed with my bicycle up to the Gibralfaro, rolled down to the seashore and then further on. I acquired the bicycle from the “Clínica de la Bicicleta” in the next house, where Patrick and Alejandro stored and took care of it.

The apartment could not be better located: close to the old historical town, in the heart of Barrio Victoria, or Barrio Picasso as it is also called. Numerous cosy restaurants and other services near by. The apartment itself is fully modern and well equipped. The only weakness – if I try to discover such – is that if you have to stay inside during the daytime (as my wife had, because of back pain), it is like living in an inside suite of a ocean ship: windows turn to inner yard and corridor and cannot therefore be kept open. But the other side of the coin is that the apartment is peaceful and silent, which is not so often the case in the Spanish cities, where they say “mucha luz, mucho trafico y ruido”.

Thanks to the hospitality and kindness of Wolfram, Elena’s brother-in-law, our everyday life came along so fluently. Wolfram is a man with many talents, who is able to arrange everything. Once a week he brought new clean towels and bed-clothes, told where this and that could be bought, helped us in IT-problems, gave medical consultation and so forth.

All in all, five stars to Elena’s place.