Praveen currently lives in Sydney but was always available and helpful via email; and his mother and cousin were there to meet me when I arrived and showed me how everything works, opens and shuts. The flat is clean, tidy, charming, simply but elegantly furnished and very spacious. You have the run of the place, and it felt like a home away from home. It's on the ground floor, and the tenants upstairs are friendly and quiet. In fact the whole neighbourhood is friendly and quiet, even though Arsenal stadium is just around the corner. Brentwood Rd is a charming Victorian crescent just a couple of blocks from Holloway Rd, which has plenty of supermarkets, a pleasant local pub serving homemade pizza, an excellent pie shop and other amenities. Holloway Rd Tube station is five minutes away, Highbury and Islington Tube ten minutes walk further down the road, and there are plenty of buses going into central London. All in all, it's a very handy base from which to explore the city.