Notting Hill: a Dual personality tour!
Notting Hill is a picturesque neighborhood. Just north of Kensington and to the west of Hyde Park, It’s known for its famed Saturday market, the annual Notting Hill Carnival (the largest street fair in Europe), for casual cafes, antiques and vintage apparel shops, for chalk colored homes, and alleys with charming mews houses. It was made famous in 1999, by the movie of the same name, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. And it is just as fashionable today! But I really wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to Notting Hill. My only previous experience was in the summer on a sunny Saturday, battling huge crowds at Portobello Market. Jeff, Hailey and I were trying to meet up with some friends, and we found it to be an almost impossible feat--- Portobello Road was a swarm of mass humanity. (see below) the zoo that is Portobello Market on a Saturday midday ! So when my friend Amy offered to give me the “insider’s tour”, I was stil...