Portobello Road

Quinn on a side street off Portobello Road. Does anyone remember the movie "Bedknobs & Broomsticks"? That is one of my favorite kids movies and there is a scene in it on Portobello Road. I was thrilled to be there! We left our hotel early and took the tube down to Notting Hill then we walked the rest of the way to the road. It is a HUGE open market. We waited to go until today so all the vendors would be there. We spent a couple hours there and we only bought a pair of sunglasses for Quinn and food for our picnic lunch! We were so glad we went early, by the time we left you literally could hardly move downt he street, and there were hoards of people getting off the tube and heading in that direction. We were like fish swimming against the current to get out of there!

This paella pan was enormous! It was about 4 feet across and it smelled heavenly! We didn't buy this for lunch though. We bought bread, cheese, fruit smoothies, and apple turnovers. We walked to Kensington Park to have our lunch. It was Travis' birthday lunch, as today he turns 14!

Here's the birthday boy! He wasn't very thrilled about spending the morning of his birthday shopping, but when we sat down to lunch he perked up :) Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I've passed them along to Travis. He had a great day!

In front of the famous Portobello Market, well obviously! Another reason we were glad to get an early start was that by 11:00 the temp was soaring toward 90! But we were on our way to the park to sit under a nice shade tree. It has been an unusually hot June for the city.