I enjoyed my stay in Gerald and Linda's Belleville apartment very much. Spending nearly two weeks there it certainly came to feel like home! The apartment is just as it is pictured and impeccably clean. Linda's communication was always fast, friendly and to the point and finding the property on arrival in Paris was a breeze. Ideally located between two metro stops (Belleville and Pyrenees) made it easy to reach almost any corner of the city in half an hour or less. It was nice, as well, at the end of a day in the well-traveled tourist areas of Paris, to go home to the real Parisian, working-class, ethnically-diverse neighborhood that is Belleville. To ease my tired legs, I would use the Belleville metro station when heading out both day and night and always return to Pyrenees taking advantage of gravity and the downhill walk in both cases. The narrow view of Paris and the Eiffel Tower as you leave Pyrenees and stroll down Rue de Belleville was always a pleasant and memorable site......particularly at sunset. You have many restaurants and bars very close by......a couple of grocery stores......a nice natural food store and even a McDonald's for those in need of such. The apartment has every convenience, is very clean and efficiently laid out and, for it's size, has a better equipped kitchen than most. Being on an interior, ground floor courtyard has some nice advantages too, like not having to climb flights of stairs after a day of hiking around the city....an insulation from the street noise that can be quite prevalent in much of Paris, and in general, a very quiet, peaceful place to relax and recharge. I found that I slept very long and deep while there with the evenings being particularly quiet and the bed extremely comfortable. In general, I had a very pleasant stay and found Gerald and Linda's property to be a great value in expensive Paris. I highly recommend!