Paolo's friend Stefano came to the train station to welcome us as communicated previously. Stefano is very very friendly and speaks really good English. He walked us to the apartment, helped to carry our very heavy luggage and gave us a lot of information regarding the beautiful Florence, including a map that Paolo and Stefano made on their own marking some walking tours that they recommended. We visited the spots and the neighborhood restaurant (Il Contadino) he suggested and everything was perfect.

The apartment is at a pretty convenient location, close to the train station and about 15-20 mins walk from the Uffizi museum, Florence Cathedral, Pont Vecchio and other major spots. The decoration is really cute and the kitchen fully equipped with everything needed for making some meals even though we did not bother to cook at all. The neighborhood is very dynamic and lively. However, the double layer glass windows seal the noise really well. As long as the windows are closed, we were not bothered by the noise at all. The apartment is very clean.

If there is anything to our inconvenience, it is that the wifi didn't seem to work. We can see strong signal on our devices but had a lot of trouble accessing any website. For once, there was even a pop-out window totally in Italian (which I, of course, don't understand at all) and the only thing I could figured in the dialog is "100 euro (sign)".

Paolo showed up the last morning of our stay and told us that the wifi problem is with the service provider. We could understand it but still wanna point this out to others.