There are numerous bars, restaurants and shops in the villages of Casabermeja and Colmenar.

Both villages are a 10 to 15 minutes drive from Los Curriches (depending on how fast you drive!). Directions to our favourite restaurants are available in the villa. We provide maps of Colmenar so you can easily locate everything there.

Both villages have bakeries, butchers, post offices, banks with cash-machines, pharmacies, and lots of small supermarkets. Colmenar also has a 24 hour medical centre. A new supermarket has recently opened in Colmenar and, if your Spanish isn't great and you don't want to shop in the bigger Malaga supermarkets, we would recommend shopping there as it is self-service, and it has the greatest choice of food and drink locally.

However, if you are planning on doing most of your own cooking, you could go to one of the vast supermarkets in Malaga on your way here from the airport as there is obviously even greater choice available there (including things like teabags and Kelloggs cereals, which you won't find in the village stores!!). Alternatively, you could ask us to do the shopping for you - just give us at least one week advance notice. But please note that we make a very small charge for this service (see the Prices section of the website for details).

Spain does not have Sunday shop opening and most shops in the smaller towns and villages close at lunchtime on Saturdays. Banks do not open at all at the weekend.

There is a local street market in Colmenar every Thursday, and in Casabermeja every Friday. In the unlikely event of bad weather, there are cinemas showing English language movies in Torre del Mar and Malaga. Also in Torre del Mar, there is a 10-pin bowling alley. You are welcome to use our broadband wi-fi internet connection to check and send emails.