We are 3 friends from Chile and we were visiting Portland during a scientific meeting. Martha was an excellent and friendly host and she gave us a lot of good ideas to visit Portland. The cottage has everything we needed and is really confortable. The historic neighborhood is beautiful, charming, safe and close to restaurants, a grocery store (Safeway at 2 blocks) and a big shopping center (Lloyd). It is easy to reach the public transportation (useful to go everywhere), around 8-10 minutes walking (TRAM or Street car). It is also a great location if you are going to the convention center; you can go by TRAM or even walking (15-20 min aprox.). We would definitely stay there again.