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Sunday, March 04, 2007

In which I am dense

So I'm waiting at a bus stop in Notting Hill Gate and two women come up and start asking me something in broken English. I think they may have been Spanish; there were a lot of "th" and "hch" sounds. Anyway, the only words I can make out are "Notting Hill" and "door" and "film".

Well, I tend to panic when english-speaking strangers talk to me let alone ones who are struggling to make themselves understood, thus my brain isn't inclined to work too well in such situations, so the only thing I can think is that they're trying to find the local cinema. I say I'm sorry but I don't know, and they thank me and go on their way.

It's not until I'm getting on a bus a few minutes later that I realise they were trying to find Hugh Grant's front door from the film Notting Hill (not that I knew where that was anyway).

God I'm slow sometimes.

For future reference, it seems the main Notting Hill locations were along Westbourne Park Road, near where it crosses Portobello Road. Although, apparently, the actual front door that appears in the film is no longer there. So, sorry possibly-spanish tourist women! I hope you found it in the end and are not still wandering around the back streets of west london, hopelessly lost in the rain.

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