Alice and Giorgio are exceptional hosts. Young, dynamic, full of energy and enthusiasm, they met me at the bus-stop, greeted me warmly, and helped load my suitcases into their car; exhausted as I was, we immediately launched into a lively conversation, and they were so patient with my rusty and broken Italian! They were helpful too in providing advice on places to eat and shop in the neighbourhood, which was especially important for me as on that first day I had no car, needed to get organized to furnish the house we had rented for a longer stay, and to prepare it as best I could in advance of my wife's arrival. I had deliberately looked for an Airbnb within walking distance of the new place, and thanks to Alice and Giorgio, was able to find many of the shops and services I needed right on my doorstep. In fact one evening, Giorgio personally introduced me to the proprietors of several local shops as we walked up the high street (yes I know this is Italy but the structure of some Siracusa neighbourhoods resembles other traditional UK and European communities). People were already treating me with true Mediterranean hospitality but after that introduction, they were even more friendly. The flat was exactly as advertised, and I regretted my caution in only booking it for a week. I would definitely recommend Alice and Giorgio's property, it has everything you might need to have a base to visit other places in the area by car and features on-site parking which anyone who has driven in Italy, even in the tiniest tin box of a car (such as I wisely rented this time), is worth gold. This is especially true in Siracusa/Ortigia as the old city has huge restrictions on private cars. You absolutely do not need a car in Ortigia, and if visiting Ortigia had been my focus I would have rented within its walls, as we did on an earlier visit, but I had other stuff to do this time, like buying a kitchen... (as an aside, my first question on arrival at their one bedroom flat was, where did you buy this kitchen?) I absolutely must highlight the fact, however, that the location of this property is within walking distance of the ancient ruins of the Greek and Roman theatres, perhaps one of the most spectacular of many such sites in Sicily, said to have more abundant and better preserved ruins from Ancient Greece than modern Greece itself. If you have not seen Siracusa's Greek theatre, you have not been to Sicily, and if you have not been to Sicily, (to plagiarize Goethe), you have not seen Italy at all.