Daniela's home is absolutely lovely, built in traditional Lipari style, brimming with character, and with views of Lipari island, the sea, and Vulcano that the photos can only begin to do justice to. We (my partner, her two daughters (18 & 21) and my son (14) spent two nights, one full day, and a morning there after a ten day visit to Palermo, Cefalu, and Siracusa, and although we were worried that our visit to Lipari might be too brief and rushed we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful home and location to conclude our trip to Sicily with. Daniela herself was an extremely helpful host. She replied promptly and warmly to my many questions and was as informative as she could be at a distance and given my lack of knowledge about the island. On that note, future guests should know that getting to Lipari before the tourist season can be complicated. Although there's a regular hydrofoil service from Milazzo it doesn't seem possible to reserve tickets in advance, at least not from outside Italy. I had to fill out a whole host of forms, only to have the company's website repeatedly crash on me. Eventually, we got tickets for the ferryboat service, well worth it for the views of the mainland and islands but in our case late by an hour and a half, so that we got to Lipari at around 2145, after all shops had closed. Which brings me to the next complication, namely that Daniela's house is far from the port, town, and shops. Her housekeeper Giovanna, who's entrusted with the task of shepherding guests up to to the house, didn't seem at all prepared to handle five guests with luggage and seemed totally stressed out by our late arrival. At any rate, after a loud exchange in Sicilian dialect with her husband, they improbably transported us up to the house in Bartolo's very small car, after stopping at two different places to pick up groceries for the next day. (One of the two places opened up especially for us, and probably overcharged us for the service, but we were grateful to have provisions.) For the return trip on our last day, G & B showed up with two cars (in lieu of hailing a cab for us) but were unclear about how much we showed pay them. It's possible (my Italian is limited and they speak no English) that she said "at least 60" and i know for certain that he said "50". In the event we erred on the side of generosity and gave them 100 Euros for the inconvenience but guests shouldn't have to be forced to negotiate transportation fees with a stressed out housekeeper! In any case, if you stay at Daniela's house you won't be sorry. It's one of the most beautiful homes in one of the most beautiful locations that any traveller could ever hope to stay in. But make sure to ascertain how exactly you're going to...