We were only 2 people, myself and my husband and so the house was bigger than we needed, but I fell for the view in the pictures and the reality did not disappoint. I spent many happy hours admiring the changing view while my husband was out on his bike. And he loved the roads around the house and came back from bike rides quite euphoric! Yes, the road up to the house is steep and is not perfect all the way up, but we have stayed in houses where it was much much worse and so the road up to Villa Guarda Mare felt easy (we had hired an Audi A1 which was perfect). The situation of the house was also great, within walking distance of Roccatederighi (even for me as I wait for hip replacement surgery) and we found everything we needed there. Inside the house itself was very very comfortable and felt like a real home. Comfy beds (never get that in Spain, there they are as hard a rocks!). We booked the cooking class (ricotta and spinach ravioli and it was a lot of fun, but we had a mountain of raviolis at the end - I was quite surprised that we managed to eat them all over the next days, but they were very very good :-) We also tried the recommended restaurant (da Nada) for a meal one night and it was truly lovely with great service. We had a table by the window and could see over to Villa Guarda Mare as we ate which was lovely. We came home thoroughly relaxed and this is the first time that I can write that we will go back, it was just wonderful. Thank you so much to all the folk involved in hiring out Villa Guarda Mare!!