Simone's place was well located (easy walk to Duomo) and the bed was comfortable. It was close to a lovely bakery, a nice Japanese restaurant and a supermarket. The WiFi and washing machine worked well. Downside was there was no shower (just a shower head in the bath tub) and in order to meet Simone's friend to let me in I needed an Italian phone which was difficult to overcome as free strong WiFi to make a call on Skype was hard to come by. But the apartment offered value for money.