While we were still living in Singapore, we bought a house in the hills of Mijas, not far from Málaga in southern Spain in early January 2019. With help of local builders and a local building surveyor, we thoroughly renovated the house between August 2019 and the summer of 2020, before finally moving in in July 2020, after some delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic which was quite severe in Spain during the first wave in the spring and early summer of 2020.