Every good superhero needs a hideout. Safe in the knowledge that no doers-of-evil would ever use the internet, I can reveal that my London lair will be located at 58 Fortune Green Road, West Hampstead, NW6 1DT. It is located above a scooter store, making quick getaways rather convenient (in a race across London, I would choose a Vespa over the bat-mobile anyday. I imagine afterburners are of limited effectiveness in gridlock, and the turning-circle on that thing didn't look great). It's nice and close to West Hampstead tube station (even superheroes have to use public transport sometimes), and Fortune Green (Green = Park) is right across the road (you've got to stay in shape when you wear spandex to work).
Sure, the fact it is has three decent-sized bedrooms (i.e. their dimensions are greater than a human lying horizontally) and two bathrooms meant it was a long way in front of the pack to start with, but the deal-sealer was the terrace. Admittedly, on days like today, with a maximum temperature of 6 degrees celsius and a minimum of 0, it isn't the place to be. But come summer (I'm told England has one), I'm sure it will come into its own.
And, we have a sofa-bed and a camp-bed downstairs, so if anyone needs refuge from the cold streets of London, just send up the bat-signal.
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