Location, character and a super-responsive, patient host are the big draws of this apartment in Oltrarno. Three minutes from the quiet back entrance to the Boboli Gardens, it's a totally walkable (and beautiful) fifteen or twenty minutes to pretty much anything else you'd want to see in Florence. Very quiet at night, quiet building, furnishings that reflect the family's interests in art and music, small Carrefour grocery seven minutes down the street with a dizzying selection of wonderful food, endless jewel-like shop windows to look at, and a neighborhood with real life going on all around. George hits the sweet spot between being available at a moment's notice and staying quietly in the background when not needed. Printed our boarding passes for us and delivered them personally.