Mario was to us a wonderful host. Besides his place has about everything you might possibly need, essentials for preparing food, like sugar and salt, water, coffee, it even has a sewing and first aid kit! Anything you need for cleaning..... He sort of adopted us. My mother is 85 and has some mobiity problems, he helped us, not only the arriving day , but with the tickets and even took us to another train station for a connection. He communicated constantly to check how we were going on , even after we left. The only problem is that by now we are quite spoiled, and maybe we will expect to much from the next host!