This is a beautiful, strikingly large, and very comfortable apartment in a quiet corner of Venice. A family of four could stay here easily, and a couple ... well, let's just say that there was more room available in Fulvia's place than in my own 3-room apartment in Germany! Many apartments advertise "fully equipped kitchen", but that's not usually true if you actually try to cook. Here you could in fact easily make all your meals—and the kitchen is actually larger and more comfortable than it appears in the photos. Full-size refrigerator, four-burner stove, dishwasher, lots of pots and pans, water-boiler and toaster, etc.; even coffee and spices. The bed is comfortable, the bathroom is very nice.

Fulvia not only had a bottle of local wine waiting for me when I arrived, but local olive oil and cookies. And since she knew I was arriving late, she volunteered to go to a market so that I would also have bread and milk and fruit the next day. She's a perfect, accommodating host, who makes everything easy. She even had boots ready for me on a day when high water was threatening.

We will be back in Venice, and we will definitely stay in Fulvia's apartment; no criticisms at all.