Let me tell you a little about my home. It is located in West London, 25 min. from the centre of the city by tube. The area is called Hanwell, it is a very nice part of London with lots of parks, golf courses, river and canal walks. I live in a very comfortable Victorian 3 bedroom terraced house that has been entirely renovated and is tastefully furnished with antiques. You are not far from the shops, shopping arcades, supermarkets and if there aren't sufficient around here, you hop on the bus or the tube and you have 2 miles of continuous shops in Oxford Street or Regent Street!

The house is not far from Heathrow, the main London Airport, approx. 20 min by tube and also close to the Railway Station of Brentford that has a direct link to Waterloo Station. Your local tube stations are Boston Manor and Ealing Broadway (5 min. bus ride or train) and there is a main line train station in Hanwell to central London Paddington, 5 min. from the house, by foot.

I share the house with a very affectionate Burmese cat called Kasia, so you would have to love cats! Your own private bedroom is on the first floor of the house. It is a bright, sunny and comfortable carpeted single room with a window overlooking the garden. It has a single bed, a desk, plenty of shelving space for books, hanging space for your clothes and a chest of drawers.

You wouldn’t be in your room a lot of the time as the house is very spacious and can accommodate everyone easily.

On the same floor as your room there is a shower room and toilet/combined utility room with washing machine and hanging space to dry clothes.

The second bathroom, adjacent to my bedroom in the attic, is for my personal use. On the first floor is also a second smaller bedroom, it overlooks the street and is for friends. The kitchen/dining area is a lively room and usually the focus of the house. The kitchen leads into a beautiful living room with an open fire place (used frequently) and 3 French windows that take you onto a private patio with a gate that access the garden. On warm evenings we can sit outside or take our meals on the patio.

You will see that we have an exceptionally lovely garden for London, with lots of trees, a river and fields across the other side of the water with a golf course and a magnificent viaduct built by a famous English Engineer called Brunel. The viaduct carries the trains from a London Station called Paddington towards Cornwall. The area is surrounded by parks, river and canals and offers wonderful facilities for walking.

The street is nice and quiet, there is a special gate that separates our residential area from the traffic on the main road and therefore the only traffic is that of people living here. I have lovely neighbours and in the house, across the street, lives my friend and colleague, Barry Morgan. Barry is also an English teacher married to a French lady called Dominique and we sometimes help each other with our teaching programme. We are planning occasional outings, meals, socialising etc. as joint families events which would introduce you to different people, accents, situations and make it a more interesting and challenging stay.

I am a qualified neuroscientist (hence the Dr title) and used to work in Medical Research (Multiple Sclerosis) until I qualified to teach English. I then decided to open my home to welcome people such as yourself and to help them learn English, a language which I adore and enjoy teaching. I have one request: Please, could you possibly abstain from smoking during your stay, both within the house and its immediate vicinity. If you must smoke, I will beg you to smoke at the bottom of the garden or on the street.

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Email me to let me know if you like what I am offering and tell me when and for how long you would like to join me in London. Heathrow is the ideal airport to fly to and I would love to welcome you there on arrival, but an additional charge is made for this service (you can also use Luton airport with EasyJet). The longer you delay, the less choice of possible dates I will be able to give you. You may book online by payment of a deposit using bank transfer or credit card through the PayPal secure payment system (see Online Booking Form below). I will ask you to pay me the balance either by credit card or in £ Sterling / travellers cheques at the beginning of your stay. Don't hesitate to call or email me if you have any questions or you would like to discuss other options.

I hope I shall have the pleasure of meeting you soon.