Portobello Market

Portobello Market at Notting Hill, London has become one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world.

Many of the Pubs, Antique Arcades and Streets around and about the area have exotic sounding names. The area of Portobello market was originally a farm, which was named after Puerto Bello in the Caribbean in memory of an English naval officer - Admiral Vernon (12 November 1684 – 30 October 1757), who captured the town in 1739. (Puerto Bello is a port city in Colon Province, Panama. It is located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama).

Since then the area has become built up with houses, shopfronts and the street market, however pub names such as the Portobello Gold and the Portobello Star (navigation) are references to those heady seafaring days off the Spanish Main (Spanish Main = extensive coast line in the Americans. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Main). One of the Antiques Arcades is even known as the Admiral Vernon.

You may have heard of Notting Hill and the market in the movie – Notting Hill starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant where they fall in love near the market area… This too had made its own history impression on the neighbourhood. (There was no escaping from mentioning a Hollywood film – sorry!!!)

btw – when Udi tried to find out how to get there from the bus stop he got the following directions: "follow the crowd" - funny, but it worked…

Here are some photos we took: (more photos @: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=klein.un&target=ALBUM&id=5572828971806513345&authkey=Gv1sRgCKLj-OSm7cGmoQE&invite=CP-m9IoN&feat=email )