The flat is very close to the historic city with exellent public transport connections - but if you want to walk, it is not a hard thing: for example the Ponte Vecchio is around 35mins on foot from the flat easily. In the neigburhood You can find groceryes, pasticceria, pzzeria, gelateria, restaurant, etc. - all of them were good or exellent where I was. Soffiano is a kind of "historic suburb" next to the ancient walls of the city, generally nice, tranquil and confortable part of Firenze, if You come to Firenze for a week to visit museums, walking in the city it is exellent choice - for me it was. Valter is a great host at all. He do not speaks english or french or hungarian, he speaks italian, what I do not, but we had no any problem in the communication - thanks to google translaitor, and the personal meeting, and mainly Valter's positive attitude. The flat is nice, clear and fully equipped.