James' apartment is wonderful. The triple aspect sitting room allows the light to stream in and the garden roof terrace is looking lovely now spring has come. The little mezzanine room is still the most exciting thing for my children – a private little den full of comics, Roald Dahl and other children's favourites. A bus departs every 8 minutes to the city centre but the square has everything – Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, a bakery, an English pub and an Italian trattoria and an intimate live jazz club. So I never left the square!