Everything about Lucilla and her house was amazing! The house was spotless clean, spacious, with wifi and air conditioning in both the bedroom and the second room/living room. Lucilla made sure we had everything we needed to have a pleasant stay: she provided us with many towels, shampoo, shower gel, a great hair dryer. The bathroom was big and even contained a washing machine. The kitchen was a small treasure. It had every necessity to help us cook, and even more: salt, pepper, olive oil, garlic, dried chillies, sun dried tomatoes (!!), cinnamon, plenty of coffee (filter and -of course- espresso), sugar, jam, hot chocolate, rise, corn flakes etc.
The area (Pigneto) is not in the center, but it has EXCELLENT connections with pretty much everywhere you want to go. Bus 105 comes very frequently and the bus stop is literally just around the corner. From there you get to Termini in c.15 minutes and there you can take the metro (2 stops for Colosseum-Forum) or many buses (40 and 64 take you through all the main sites: Pantheon, Piazza Venezia, Largo Argentina, St Peter's Basilica, 714 takes you to the baths of Caracalla and the Via Appia, where you can visit the museo delle mura and walk inside the Aurelian walls -truly amazing!).
Near the house there is a bar ('Yeah!') where you can get 10% discount just by knowing Lucilla! We only went for breakfast and it had excellent cappuccino and amazing pastries! What we loved the most was Pizzeria Margari, which had the best pizza we ate in Rome (try the Margarita, and for starter the dough balls!). There is also a fruit/veg/meat/fish market at Via del Pigneto (a few mins walk from the appartment) where we bought tasty cheap fruit! - All these places were recommended to us by Lucilla, and her recommendations proved more than true!
What's even more amazing than the great apartment and the amazing pizza is Lucilla herself! She picked us up from Termini, even though we arrived at 11pm! She showed us around the entire neighborhood and she had prepared for us an amazing traditional bruschetta from Naples with tasty tomatoes and mozzarella. This was such a pleasant surprise after a long trip! She also had bought us milk and bread, which meant we had all we needed for breakfast the next morning! She even left for us some of her amazing biscuits and jam tarts (which she baked herself!). She was a friendly, helpful, full of character person, one of those people who are hard to come by.
It is truly important, especially for young people, to feel that they have someone to rely on when they are in a foreign country, and Lucilla was that person for us.
Would we recommend her place? OF COURSE! In fact, we have already told all our friends and family about it and we look forward to visiting again soon!

Thanks a lot Lucilla!!