The apartment is clean, comfortable, well located, well equipped, attractive and spacious. Parking is difficult. The central city is in a Zona Traffico Limitato and you cannot enter without risking a fine. There is parking immediately outside the central city, only a 5 minute walk from the apartment, but most of it is blue line (pay) and the white line (free) is almost always full. As I recall, the blue line is free from 1 AM until 3 PM, and there is a 10 euro all day fee (but you need 10 euro in coins-currency and credit cards won't work). The host's mother told us we could park in the area of the blue lines, where there are striped white lines (I would have thought the striped white lines designated no-parking, but we parked there several days and got no tickets). There usually seemed to be some open spaces in these striped white line areas, and others were parking there without any parking payment slips displayed in their windows. Not sure what the rule is, but this worked for us in September.
There is a small alimentary next door where you can buy wine, bread, eggs, cold cuts, etc. There are plenty of restaurants in easy walking distance. There is a public beach (Purità) within a few minutes walk. There are apparently some nicer beaches a distance north and south of the city, but we didn't want to give up our parking spot so we didn't try them. Purità is pretty nice, but I was surprised that no one had cleaned up the line of dead seaweed that has washed up onto the shore. Water was very comfortable in early September.
We took several day trips (Otronto, Santa Maria di Leuca, Galatina). There were 30-60 minutes away and fairly easy to find. We've been to Lecce before, and didn't have enough time to return, although I would have liked to. On our return at early evening, we had access only to our striped lines, but they worked.
We enjoyed ourselves and would stay there again, hoping Wi-Fi would be available.