Susana's house is beautiful and very large. The view is great and when you take the stairs next to her house you are in the middle of Alfama with nice little restaurants and bars. When you are preparing food in her well-equiped kitchen you hear the Fado singers which sounds very romantic. The street in front of her house is quite noisy but when you close the windows (which you actually don't want to do with the great weather) it is quiet and at night thats good. We didn't had the chance to meet Susana - I wish we had because she sounds so lovely in her emails and phone messages - but she had arranged everything with the key and so on very well with her neighbor. We had a lovely stay at her place!