Everything was wonderful. Calliope arranged for Malika and her daughter Sisse to meet us at the boat and take us on the short walk to the apartment. Malika gave us ideas for restaurants and even called to arrange our water taxi to the train station. Could not have been a better experience in this beautiful city! I do need to say it is very noisy in the morning with the canal in front of the house and Venetians doing their work (restaurant deliveries etc by boat)... We just chalked it up to real life in Venice!