Monica's place is breathtakingly wonderful. It is clean and beautiful. The garden is beautiful and restful with a great view. As we moved past her gate and into the garden all tension rolls away. The breakfast is wonderful and full of great items from Monica's garden. Monica checked us in and shared great information on how to get into and around central Florence. She worked hard to communicate using the English she had. It was more than enough. The only problem we had was with the location, but that was really our problem because the GPS in our car would not accept her address as a real location. So we had to find a free parking space in Florence, then find a restaurant that had free wifi, eat lunch and down load directions onto our iphone, This took us about 2 hours. We were able to get to Monica's general location, which is gated estates with high stone wals,l using the down loaded information but even then we could not find numbers on the gates. When we called Monica she came to her gate and opened it so we could see her. That was so helpful. As we checked in she had a hand drawn map of the neighbor hood for us to as we traveled to the train/tram station and then back, that was also very useful. I would love to come back some day and stay longer. The peace, serenity and beauty of Monica's place is even more than wonderful.