10 King’s Mews, London

Bloomsbury sits between King’s Cross, Clerkenwell, Holborn and Fitzrovia. One of the joys of living here is that you can walk everywhere. Many of the area’s jewels are tucked away in the back streets. Marchmont Street, for example, boasts pubs, cafés, independent and second-hand bookshops and The School of Life, writer and philosopher Alain de Botton’s shop and event space with the mission to teach emotional intelligence.

It is possible to walk or cycle to almost any central London destination from this Zone 1 location, and no one in Bloomsbury is far from an Underground station.