We had such a lovely stay at Gianluca and Ivana's apartment. It was one of the highlights of our our trip, so much so that on the last afternoon we decided to stay at the apartment and chill out.

The apartment itself is exactly as you see in the pictures, beautiful, homely, airy and fresh, and they clearly take a lot of pride in maintaining the flat at this high standard. It's a quiet street but central too, so at nights you sleep well and in the day, you can pop back really easily from the historical centre of Lecce.

Our host Gianluca was hospitable and polite, really went beyond his duty as a host in looking after us. For example, giving us lifts, a bottle of wine, always being on his phone in case of any questions we had e.g. recommending a lovely close-by restaurant called La Vie to sample local southern Italian food in a family run restaurant.

We would love to stay here again one day. 10 out of 10.