This was a fantastic experience. Lucas is the perfect host: Invisible until we need information and then ready with just what we needed. Just one example: we were checking out and planning to make the one kilometer walk to the bus station to catch the Orly Shuttle. Lucas informed us that it had a stop only about a hundred meters from the front door. When we arrived, he had maps of the local area waiting for us so we had a feel of where things like grocery stores were located.

This is an excellent base for exploring the city. Several bus stops and a subway station are within a few hundred yards, and there are a number of restaurants, ranging from elegant to burger and falafel.

I was particularly impressed by the security. Entry is first by keypad, followed by a key-locked gate to the garden and finally through another keypad on the apartment’s door.

The apartment, itself, is spacious and has plenty of storage space.