Notting Hill!

 

I am already counting my remaining days in England so I couldn't pass by the chance to visit the location of one of the most romantic movie ever -- Notting Hill.  It was a rainy and cold afternoon when we come out of the Notting Hill tube station so for the meantime we decided to seek shelter in a nearby coffee shop.  When the rain stopped, Alvin and I walked our way to find the travel bookstore where Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant first met in the movie.  Indeed, houses in Notting Hill are as colorful as they are seen in the film. They are really nice houses. :-)  We just didn't took pictures of it because those are private residences. 

It has been a while after we finally saw the travel bookshop that we are looking for -- in fact, we are already on our way back to the tube station when we found it.  :-)     

This shop in Portobello Road is full of "Singer" vintage sewing machines.
Very unique.

Charaaaannn.... the travel bookshop!

Ooops, honestly... it turned out that this is not the real bookshop used in the film. The real one no longer exists.  Nevertheless, it was still a good idea to have this bookstore -- at least tourists can still get a souvenir close enough to the real one. :-)  

We didn't catch the Portobello Market open
because the street stores had packed up due to the not-so-good weather. 

This is actually our fondest moment in Notting Hill -- 
laughing, talking and people-watching.


How we love simply being together.
:-)