Maria and Alfredo were very kind as to pick us up at the airport with very short notice when our plan of hiring a car fell through. The apartment is excellent, very clean, spacious, very well equipped and most of all filled with a lot of information about the island, region and Etna - both sights and culture. Maria also gave us 2 bicycles so that we could cycle to Nicolosi and then get the bus from there for Etna, this however was not possible since after the 15th of September there is only one bus early in the morning which we missed, she then offered us her car in order to complete our trip.