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| Home Sweet Home |
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| On the lowest right, our apartment has the two windows |
Settling in at the Queen Alexandra Mansions, though mansions may be a misnomer. We're ensconced in a daylight basement flat in an 8-story hulking Victorian tower of bricks. Though it's a comfortable 800 square foot 2-bedroom apartment, it's hard to believe that it would take a half million pounds (around $800K) to buy this place. One block to two of the busiest train stations, and all sorts of other diversions dot the neighborhood: at least a half dozen pubs within spitting distance, Dickens's house, a zoology museum where Darwin once hung out, the world's first "foundling home" where some 17,000 children were left by families unable to care for them, and the British Library where you can stroll in and see the Magna Carta, Henry VIII's prayer scroll, or some Beatles songs scribbled on to the backs of envelopes.
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