Alan's place is a great location being only a 5 minute walk to the Schonhauser Allee, U2 subway and then 1 stop away from the M10 Eberwalder stop.
We took the M10 tram from the main Train station, Berlin HBF, t0 to Eberwalder stop, and then got on U2 to Schonhauser Allee. We bought two 1 week passes and zipped around the city using the U2 line mostly.
Alan showed us around the apartment when we arrived, explaining how things worked and where we could find things, as well as showing us the washing machine and how to use it. He went with us to the street to point out a couple of restaurants across the street, an Italian place and a Vietnamese restaurant. He explained where the two grocery stores were-we used Netto in the Mall around the corner on Schonhauser Allee. There are also a couple of places to get beer and small items.
The apartment looks out on ground floor into courtyard. The sparrows in the bushes kept up a chirping back drop.
There is a TV and DVD player with a small sample of DVD's in English. Pretty much only English programming is BBC, CNN and a another local Berlin news show.
The bed is big and comfortable; I/m 6'6" (198cm) and my wife is 6' and no problems.
It would have been nice to have another place to sit, perhaps a couch, but the bed did double duty for TV watching.
Table for two to eat at beside the windows to the courtyard.
We would certainly return to stay at Alan's place!