While in London, one stop that was high on our list was the Travel Book Shop on Portobello Road. The store, as I am sure many are aware, is where the Hugh Grant character met the Julia Roberts character in the movie, Notting Hill, which is one of our favorite rom-coms of all time. We stopped at the store in 2006 during our last trip to London and what a disappointment to find that it has been turned into a tourist and trinket shop, although, as the Hugh Grant character himself admitted in Notting Hill, the fictional store didn't sell many travel books even back then. So, the store failed and just the facade remains as a tourist trap. Below is the picture from our recent trip with all the sad tourist stuff and one taken in way back in 2006 with me from 18 years ago, taken from the exact same spot:
