We were greeted by Angela, Maria's mother-in-law and she was very helpful and patient with my poor Spanish. As we were a little early, we left our bags and returned later. Although we didn't think that we would see Angela again she had to return on two occasions to sort out a couple of issues with the apartment, this was done very promptly and via email with Maria, and Angela resolved the problem. She even brought me a bunch of flowers on my birthday which was very thoughtful of her. The apartment is comfortable but it would be a squeeze for 11 people, there were 8 of us and it worked well but people were prepared to share the 3 bedrooms (1 single room = 4 bedrooms in total). It is a very quiet neighbourhood but well situated for Barcelona, we walked to the Ramblas and took the bus and metro on other days.