onefinestay.com.The older children are incoherent with excitement as we collect them from school on Friday; they haven’t been on holiday yet this year and are high on Christmas spirit.
But why, they ask, is the car so full when we’re not even leaving London?Turns out that at our stage of parenthood you need the same kit for two nights across the Thames as you do for a week in Europe. (A benefit, I later discover, of a staycation just two miles from home, is that your live-in nanny can send over forgotten items in an Uber).Our home for the weekend is a house just off a pretty garden square moments from Harrods and Hyde Park, with views of the V&A.
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