Portobello Road, one of the most suggestive places of London where you can meet the original London people, here every day there's the most famous market of the world. In Portobello Road the stalls sell everything, from the books to the trinkets, from the furniture to the fashion and even exotic food and, to Saturday, it makes space to the antiquities. With over 1500 exhibitors it is particularly convenient for the acquisition of jewels and silverware. They are you besides pictures, bottles of perfume, porcelains and poster. The district of Notting Hill, that is crossed by Portobello Road, was in the XIX century an expanse of cultivated fields, instead it is now a district more and more frequented by the celebrities, full of places with music, cafe and ballrooms. The residents of Caribbean origin have practiced a great influence on this zone and, thanks to them, the carnival of Notting Hill has become more and more famous. The festival usually start on last Sundays of August and attracts thousand of tourists. We suggest to you to wear a comfortable clothes and comfortable shoes so that you can follow the whole run of the carnival.
Notting Hill has increased his fame after the homonym movie with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, and many places are destination of numerous visits as those that you will see following...
 

From the movie Notting Hill:
"...Notting Hill my favourite bit of London. There's the market on weekdays selling every fruit and vegetable known to man. The tattoo parlor... And then, suddenly, it's the weekend and from break of day hundreds of stalls appear out of nowhere, filling Portobello Road right up to Notting Hill Gate. And wherever you look thousands of people buying millions of antiques..."