I loved my stay at Franco’s apartment. The quiet location on Old Bakery Street was perfect — only a block or so from the very crowded and touristy Republic Street, on a quiet residential street with some very nice restaurants a couple of hundred meters away. The bus station (Malta has excellent, efficient, inexpensive public transport) was a convenient five-minute walk away. The living room and bedroom were a very nice size with high, beamed ceilings and colorfully tiled floors. From my little balcony I had a very nice view. The sparkling-clean, light-filled apartment had a nice refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, and oven. The cook top was a bit worn, however. The apartment had a new clothes washer and a clothing-drying rack on the sunny, rear balcony. Franco and his partner, Alex, answered by emails quickly. Alex was at the apartment when I arrived and graciously helped with my luggage both when I arrived and when I departed. (The apartment is up two flights of steps.) There was a lot of sightseeing material available, and a welcome bottle of excellent Maltese wine and some other goodies as well. The only negatives, and they were minor for me: the furnishings and decoration were a bit spartan, a dresser and/or luggage rack would have been a welcome addition, and the water pressure in the shower could have been greater.