When we travel, we enjoy renting an apartment outside the main downtown core: it is more quiet, we live more like locals and we make discoveries on our way to downtown. The apartment suited our needs very well to this effect.

When we arrived, it was labour day and our train was 3 hours late because of an incident on the way from Padova; coming out of the train, we did not see many people, and there was no city bus nor taxi in site... Once we arrived in the area, Cristina and her husband came to meet us, at a gelateria, (one of the only stores which were open), and brought us the apartment by car. It was late, we were tired, and we were very grateful.

Cristina is concerned with the wellbeing of her guests. When something was missing in the apartment she wanted to come right away to replace it and we told her there was no rush. She came right away anyway.

The apartment is quite small but very well organized: suitcases are out of the way, the kitchen is very well thought out, and everything is available in a small space. In the kitchen, upon our arrival there was pasta and tomato sauce, cheese, eggs, coffee, cream milk and a selection of cookies. Much appreciated as it was too late for us to get these foods !

The nearby Esselunga supermarket has quite a selection of great food, allowing us to taste some products we would not have found in a restaurant.

I would recommend Cristina's apartment to friends as well as to you, the reader.