Alex's place is basic and comfortable, clean, convenient and quiet. The living room reading lamp was burned out. The TV requires special procedures to turn on. The only coffee maker is a capsule one. The pots and pans were very old. There was one wine glass, no corkscrew, a chipped serving bowl, a mish mash of old cutlery, no kitchen sink plug, lots of food left in the refrigerator. There was a small defunct refrigerator on the kitchen floor taking one of two chair spaces. The hallway heater turns on at 11 p.m. and by 8:30 the next night it starts to get cool with the doors to the bedroom, kitchen and bathroom kept closed. The hot water heater turns on at the same time but is still reasonably warm the next evening. 3 doorknobs in the kitchen fell right off. Note the beds are 2 single beds pushed together. There is no bed-couch. The hot water kettle leaks. The larger of the ceramic stove tops requires over 20 minutes to heat 2 liters of water for pasta. The smaller one never turns off so pull the wall plug after use. I couldn't double lock the entry door for fear of breaking the key trying to extract it. I informed Alex about the lamp and curious heating cycle early on. He is going to look into it. I was there for 3 weeks and accommodated myself to the place. All these deficits are easy to overcome and when they're all straightened out you'll enjoy yourselves.