The studio is compact but light and airy with large windows and high ceilings, and very nicely decorated and equipped. It's in a very quiet street, but just a short walk from two useful tube stations. Travel time to Oxford Street or Green Park is only around 25 minutes altogether, including the walk to the tube. There's a good choice of food and wine shops near the Highbury and Islington tube station, plus a corner shop just two doors away. Islington restaurants and boutiques are within easy reach and so are the leafy green spaces of Highbury Fields. Gabrielle's daughter, who arranged the keys for me, was friendly and very accommodating about arrival and departure times.