Meet your guide and set off on a 1-hour walking tour of Notting Hill. Discover the highlights and main attractions of this trendy neighborhood, famous for its annual street carnival and Portobello Road Market, the setting of the Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts film “Notting Hill.”
Get the inside track from your expert local guide on places of interest from the famous film, such as the Blue Door, the travel bookshop, celebrity homes, trendy restaurants, bars, and quiet mews. As you walk down streets with brightly colored townhouses, your local guide will give you the background of the area, which attracted an even wider global audience with the 1999 film.
Experience the buzz of the world-famous Portobello Road market on market day, buskers, spice shops, antique shops, and cafés. Be sure to taste delicious international cuisine cooked fresh on market stalls. Take advantage of iconic photo opportunities throughout.
Learn about the rise, fall, and regeneration of the area and how it became home to some of the most rich and famous celebrities. Hear about the past and present famous musicians who made Notting Hill their home and recording base. Visit the house made famous in the 70s as the Caribbean community center with its recording studio in the basement visited by all the greatest names of the day, writers, poets, and reggae musicians.
While strolling around the picturesque streets and squares, your guide will show where Jimi Hendrix took his fatal overdose and recording studios where legendary tracks were made.
At the end of the tour, be invited inside the iconic Karnak House, home in the 1970s to the Caribbean cultural organization for local and international recording artists and writers. Now the studio of a local artist, the iconic facade is seen in the Notting Hill movie, a local landmark. See life from the other side of a door in Notting Hill. Sit, relax, and enjoy your cream tea, and rewatch clips of the movie on a large screen TV. If the sun is out, enjoy alfresco eating in the garden or enjoy your cream tea to take away.
