The landscape around this place is just great - the buzzing humming Naples city center- fruit and vegetable stands open until all hours, innumerable wedding dress stores, many pizza restaurants, and gorgeous churches, all just down the street. Even the entrance to Umberto's building is picturesque: there's a concierge sitting in a little glass booth (mornings only, maybe to receive packages?), a religious statue on the wall, then a staircase leading up to the floor where the little elevator is - an elevator that only operates if one feeds it with 5 centime pieces (which Umberto thoughtfully provides a stack of)! And the soundscape is equally picturesque: the studio that Umberto rents out seems to have been carved out of a larger apartment - there's a door from the apartment building hallway into a small foyer, and 2 doors off the foyer, one of which leads to an apartment lived in by members of Umberto's family, and then the "Window on the Vesuvius" studio apartment. The family members didn't bother to close their door all the way, and so we could hear them living life loudly and exuberantly! And the view really is extraordinary - we kept taking pictures at all hours to capture Vesuvius in all of its aspects. And since the room is quite small, with one fold-out sofa bed, and one little square table, you can see Vesuvius through the one big window from anywhere in the room, whether eating at the table, or lying in the bed. Given all the great food shops we couldn't resist picking up ingredients and cooking a meal or two "at home" (the benefit of being the cook is that there's a little balcony off the kitchen - a balcony where, like many Southern Italian apartments, the clothes washer is kept!). And despite the minimal kitchen we were able to turn out our own Naples dining experience! But we wouldn't recommend doing that too often - there are just too many great places to eat (don't miss going to one of the Leopoldo Infante places for cakes, gelato, and a local Prosecco that came with tons of little bowls of snacks). Speaking of which, we wanted to start a local information booklet for Umberto to keep in the apartment with tips for future guests, but ended up not having time - you might want to print the suggestions he has on the AirBnB site to take with you. In sum, Naples was a great place to spend time, and Umberto's place was a good home base - thank you Umberto!