Annalisa is a charming, cheerful and gracious host. Her English is perfect which was a great help to us unilinguals. The apartment is spacious, nicely-designed and very clean. The Isola neighborhood is a gentrifying part of Milan that still has some of its blue-collar flavour. It's easily reached from the Garibaldi Train station by Metro, but you can also walk in 10 minutes from a back-stairway at the Station to her place. (Let her tell you how). The day we arrived she gave us some authentic Milanese chocolate cake made from bread, milk and chocolate. Delicious! (but don't expect it every time!). This was not central to the touristic part of Milan for for us travellers through Italy it was perfect. Thank you Annalisa.