Amy's brother Adam made us very welcome and was very helpful with anything that came up, and gave us great tips for places to go...the flat is lovely, cozy, on a busy street, but the neighborhood is great with a lovely cafe just across the street, fatastic gourmet grocery, fishmonger, antique store, hair salon, beautiful little dress shop, art galleries, and book store all within a stones throw of the flat...great walks, just 15 minutes to Harvard on foot past fabulous Pre revolutionary mansions of Brattle Street.