CORTIJO LAS VIÑAS
Christopher and Ursula Rose, Cortijo Las Viñas, Avenida de la Fuente, Mollina, Antequera, 29532 Málaga
Mobile Phone +34 669 117 642 Email to Info at this domain.
After working in Music, Arts and Travel in the fabulous borough of Brixton, London, throughout the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, we hankered after pastures new and better weather so sold up and ran away to Spain. This was back in the year 2001, since when a whole bunch of people from the famous to the infamous seem to have followed in our footsteps!
What have we been doing all this time? Well, we arrived in October 2001and bought the farmhouse in December that same year. We'd no sooner moved in than the neighbours invited us round for Christmas Dinner. They do it the night of Christmas Eve here in Spain so there we were, sitting down to a strange meal of traditional Andalucian fare, surrounded by a huge expanded family spanning four generations, us with nary a word of Spanish and two dozen of them with not a word of English between them. Fortunately, the Navarros are fine people and Mollina is a wine-making village, so a good time was had by all!
Since then we have completely modernized and renovated the property and run a combination of Boutique Hotel, Tapas Bar, Private Party venue, occasionally at the same time, and now Villa Rental. We've also survived bad advice, attempted fraud, the great flood of '02 and several other flirtations with disaster! We wouldn't swap it for the world!
We've also become semi-fluent in our own weird blend of proper Spanish and the local dialect, which has been of great help to both us and many of the local ex-pats who haven't gone native like us!