Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder in a particularly good mood because I'm in an absolutely lovely place.

It is the very large back garden of a beautiful home in Hampstead in north-west London. There's a beautiful rose bush. The lawn is

wonderfully tended. There's trees at the eastern end of the garden. And to my left, well, there's a

very imposing house. And let me introduce you to the man who kind of lives here. He is Dr. Giuseppe

Albano. He is the director of the Freud Museum. And Giuseppe, this is so lovely. Tell me about

what brought Freud here and indeed while you're at it, what brought you here?

Well, what brought Freud here was very, very sadly, Nazi persecution in Austria, following the

so-called Anschlis, which happened in the spring of 1938. Freud, Sigmund Freud, of course,

the founder of psychonassus, was forced to flee with his family,

with the members of his household, and they came to safety in London, and they came to this pretty

gorgeous Queen Anne Revival Red Brick House in Hampstead, 20 Mayersfield Gardens, and it's here

that he spent the last year of his life.

You have inside the museum

some really quite remarkable exhibits.

It's not quite as though he's just left his office momentarily

but sometimes it feels like that.

Can you tell us what visitors can expect at the Freud Museum? Well, visitors will

expect to see Freud's perfectly preserved study, which contains a substantial portion of his library,

which he brought over from Vienna with him in 1938, as well as his extraordinary collection

of antiquities, or about two and a half thousand of them in total.

They will see the famous original psychoanalytic couch,

which he'd been using since 1891,

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