Notting Hill
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Made famous by Notting Hill, the rom-com featuring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, Notting Hill is a well-off neighborhood with tall Victorian townhouses, some painted pastel colors. It’s also the name of the tube station which is nearest the beginning of Portobello Road market.
Insider Tip
Visit on Saturdays when the Portobello Road market, the world’s largest antiques market, is in full swing. If you're visiting London on the last weekend in August, go for the Notting Hill Carnival, a long weekend of carnival parades, sound systems, jerk chicken, and rum punch celebrating the area’s Afro-Caribbean heritage.
Away from the fray of central London are the neighborhoods that define capital living. Though Notting Hill has been gentrified, the colored houses and secondhand markets still nod to its...
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Address: London, England
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Insider Tip
Insider Tip
Visit on Saturdays when the Portobello Road market, the world’s largest antiques market, is in full swing. If you're visiting London on the last weekend in August, go for the Notting Hill Carnival, a long weekend of carnival parades, sound systems, jerk chicken, and rum punch celebrating the area’s Afro-Caribbean heritage.
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