TUBES & TRAINS    It'’s just a 7-minute walk to the Angel Islington tube station (Northern Line, Zone 1) for quick connections throughout London – just 1 stop to the King's Cross / St Pancras transport hub for further tube connections, the Eurostar to Paris, and mainline trains to Scotland, the North of England, and Gatwick and Luton Airports.  And yes, King's Cross does have a brick wall bearing the sign 'Platform 9 3/4'. It's a 10-minute walk to the Highbury & Islington tube station (Victoria Line) connecting to the Stansted (Airport) Express, and looping through Central London to Victoria Station with connections to all lines.  Arsenal's Emirates football stadium is at Highbury, as are National Rail's overground North London and Northern City Lines.  Canary Wharf, the Financial District and the 2012 Olympics are quickly accessed from here. Heathrow Airport, by the way, is best accessed by the 15-minute Heathrow Express train, which you get from Paddington Station, less than 20 minutes away.

THE BUS --WE LOVE THE BUS !!    Several key buses stop just three minutes from the house, giving convenient scenic access to all the museums, tourist sights, markets and historic neighbourhoods you'll want to see on your vacation, cheaper and often quicker than the tube.  Unlike in most cities, here the bus is your friend, with its dedicated express lanes and incredibly low cost -- just £1.20 with the Oyster Card you'’ll buy the day you arrive! Take the splendid double-decker #4 red bus to Sadlers Wells, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Fleet Street, Oxford Street shopping, Covent Garden and the West End theatres, and finally Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames to the South Bank (National Theatre, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, British Film Institute, Hayward Gallery, the London Eye), Imax, Waterloo Station, and the Old Vic.  (All that in barely half an hour’s ride!)    Other buses from this neighborhood have similarly-stunning itineraries.

Sports fans, take note:  We're just a 10-minute walk to the Highbury & Islington Tube & Rail Station, where you get not just the Victoria Line tube, but also the 20-minute overland train to Stratford and the 2012 Olympic Village!  Also, Arsenal's new state-of-the-art Emirates football stadium is just a few minutes walk from Highbury -- no trains needed at all for that one.