We found Simon’s place to be well positioned to explore London . There is a good little grocery shop just on the corner which provided most of what we needed. Only about a 10 minute walk to Westminster bridge and the eye, we didn’t use local transport and walked most of the time, we went via the graffiti tunnel most days and loved the changes in there daily. We did get a 3 day pass on the hop on hop off busses to get around most of the main attractions.Plenty of local pubs close by.