Washer Kitchen Smoke alarm Pets allowed Indoor fireplace Heating Wifi Dryer TV with standard cable Essentials
Nice setup, great location
A 1-minute walk from the Tube (Victoria Line) makes a jaunt to Oxford Circus take 15 minutes door-to-door. Comfortably appointed, with charm: leather & velvet sofas, claw-foot bathtub, lots of books, dishwasher, fast Internet, splendid neighbourhood.
I spent the first half of my life in Los Angeles (I'm 38 as I type this), and have been moving eastward ever since. Went to college in Philadelphia, then grad school in England, and ended up staying here in Blighty. I'm now bilingual in British *and* American English (hey, they're very different dialects...honest) and people have trouble placing me from my accent alone. Thankfully, nobody every guesses Canada. :)

Though I'm based in London (and am paying rent also in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia...that's another story), I spend about half my time travelling for business and pleasure. As I've been now to about 60 some-odd countries, it's getting harder and harder to add new ones. Luckily, I'm more interested in cities, and those are more plentiful, and unexplored ones are easier to come by.

If you want to understand me, it's best to think me as a novelist -- though, I've never written a novel, nor do I intend to write one. It's just my mentality. I do write regularly for The Wall Street Journal (travel pieces and museum reviews) and blog irregularly at my site (Website hidden by Airbnb)