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Here is a first draft of my description of the this house for the website written back in April of 2006. The owners have reinvested some of the earnings from last summers rentals in the house, including a line of pine trees along the main fence much enhancing privacy and overall look of the garden, and a new magnolia tree to shade part of the pool area, so the garden is looking better than ever. The step by step description that follows does tend to ramble on a bit, but then so does the house!

Location: Can Brugues is located right on the edge of the town of Sils. Sils is not the most gorgeous of Costa Brava villages, but is a very good central location close to Girona (18km) and Barcelona (70km) and the beaches of Lloret and Blanes (15kms) and has a very good infrastructure of roads (the AP-7, the N-II, and the C-63 up to the mountains) are all very nearby, as is the commuter train in to Barcelona and Girona and Figueres - very convenient if you donīt want to drive. Sils is also home to some very good restaurants, one of which, ever popular Les Mallorquines, is a 5 minute walk from the house. You also have a nearby municipal pool and tennis club, a football pitch just down the hill from Can Brugues, and a low-key discoteque a km or so down the road. I should add here the disco is closed in July and August when everyone goes to the coast for nightlife.

Can Brugues is on the edge of town, so if you are looking for a villa with absolute privacy and no neighbors at all nearby, this is not the place for you. But if you like the idea of being near a town and being able to walk over the restaurants or the bakery to get fresh croissants for breakfast (or anything from the two small but well-stocked supermarkets within 5 minutes of the house) than Can Brugues might be just the house for you. Looking out from the poolside youīd never know that you were in a village. There is absolutely no other house visible from the pool area. Let me send you a Google Earth photo so that you can explore the area on your own.... I should mention that the two restaurants closeby just happen to be two of my favorite cheapo-but-quality eateries on the whole Costa Brava, both with a daily 3 course menu for just 10 Euros. There is also an excellent day spa just 10 minutes up the road in Santa Coloma. My guidebook has lots of travel info on this area which I send to all guests coming to this area.

The house: Can Brugues is surrounded by a perimeter wall and fence and you drive in to the gravel parking area - quite large, enough room for 10 or more cars - through a front gate directly off a little transited village street. To the right you have the pool area with plenty of lawn space and shade trees, and to the left the large house, measuring about 500m2. There is also a garage but that is now being used for storage. The house is divided into three parts, each can be considered an independent two storey apartment, but the total number of rooms is 10 bedrooms, and 7 bathrooms. Here is the breakdown by apartment:

Just off the main living room is another little reading room with wicker sofa and some chairs. From the back of the living room to the right is the door to the outdoor BBQ and dining area. To the left of the living room is the hallway to the large kitchen area. The hallway has a bathroom with walk-in shower, and next door is a large pantry where the washroom is located, with washing machine, and dark back room for cool food storage. I think I remember this room has a sort-of countertop and shelving built above what must have been stalls and troughs for feeding farm animals some years ago!


On this back way into the kitchen from the living room you pass a breakfast table before reaching the modern kitchen itself, which has all the modern cons, including dishwasher, double sink, electric oven and stovetop, extractor, microwave, toaster, juicer, and lots and lots of cutlery and pots and pans, all quite new. Across from the kitchen is the cozy main dining room, with a heavy looking oval wooden table and chairs seating up to 20 in front of an hold fireplace. There is also a separate entrance into the kitchen, so counting the main entrance, the living room, the BBQ area, and now the kitchen, we are up to four entrances, the fifth one you can just barely make out in the photos: the outdoor staircase going up to the second floor...


Upstairs there is a central hallway leading to the five bedrooms and two bathrooms up here. At the far end of the hall and overlooking the pool and gardens is the bedroom with the private staircase coming up from the garden. This 1) bedroom has two single beds (190x90cm) pushed together on the same bed frame, making a double bed measuring 180x190cm. Making your way down the hall, which is nicely lit with skylights in the roof, you find three rooms 2, 3, & 4) with two single beds, most with plenty of closet space, and at the other end of the hall, another room 5) with double bed and private terrace (about 25m2) overlooking the BBQ area downstairs. These bedroom share the two bathrooms in the hallway, one with walk in shower, the other with a bathtub.


The two apartments next door a like little duplexes, the slightly bigger of the two on the far end of the patio. This is where the owners stay when they are at the house and so it is slightly more fancy and better set up than the other smaller apartment next door, with a nice beige sofa and lounge chair in the downstairs living room, and a small toilet followed by the full kitchenette with medium sized fridge, double sink, electric oven and stove, etc.. Upstairs, under the hallway skylight, are two bedrooms 6) the owners large bedroom with a nice traditional Catalan bedframe and new mattress measuring 150x 190cm, and next door a smaller bedroom 7) with another 150x190cm double bed. Next door is the upstairs bathroom with a designer walk-in shower.


The smaller apartment here has a downstairs living room but due to demand for more bedding, the ground floor here now consists of two double beds, a small toilet, and a kitchenette identical to the one next door. Upstairs is somewhat smaller than next door and one bedroom 8) has two single beds and the other bedroom 9) has only one single bed, along with the skylight in the hall with the bathroom with shower next door. These two apartments have another TV which you can plug in in a number of different rooms, and a another small portable CD/radio/cassette player. Does the living room downstairs here constitute another 10th bedroom? I don´t think so


As you can see from the photos, there are some nice decorative details throughout the house, and most of the lighting in the common areas is halogen lighting. The huge living room is particularly well-lit and attractive. There are 8 recliners around the pool area and the handsome outdoor BBQ dining area right outside from the kitchen and living room which seats up to about 20. The photos you see here were taken just after the landscaping in the garden was started so you can expect to find the garden much fuller and greener then it looks here.

For those of you who want a really big house and donīt want to be out too far into the countryside, Can Brugues is probably just what you are looking for. What´s more, the nearby stores are good, the nearby restaurants are amongst the best in the area in terms of price/quality - cheap and good, and the so far from past guests is all very positive.

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