Gerald was waiting for us to arrive from the train station, he was warm and welcoming and gave us some good info on how to get around. One street away there is a mall with lots of restaurants and bars, food was good and reasonably priced. There seems to be groups of people that just hang out in the street though and this does result in it being quite noisy till about 2 am (whilst we were staying anyway). Not sure if it is always the case. We were staying in Gerald's room in the front, so I'm not sure if the room at the rear of the apartment is less noisy.