Alberto’s place is about a 45 minute drive from MXP. We took a rental car and found close parking along the street. We also arrived around 10:30 and he was nice enough to let us store our luggage in the place while it was being cleaned.. the cleaning lady wasn’t too keen on having us here so we didn’t stay to change or use the restroom before we left to explore the city. The metro stop is a short walk, we took the red line to the duomo where we grabbed a nice late lunch and toured the church and/or Sistine chapel, what have you. For dinner we walked not even a mile to this fabulous hole in the wall place Sapori Solari... HIGHLY recommend as it was affordable and very very uniquely foodie Italian place to have a first meal, or a last meal depending on where you’re headed. We got breakfast the next morning at a cute little cafe, patesserie castelnuovo, and grabbed road food at the grocery store down the street as well.
In the morning my family of 5 tried to take hot showers but the hot water tank wasn’t working so well. We notified Alberto at 7AM (jet lag had us up very early) and he had someone at the apartment to fix it within 15 minutes. It was fixed and we all had hot showers, thanks again Alberto! Over all wonderful place, would be very happy to stay with Alberto again!