TRAVEL BOOKSHOP oppi FROM THE MOVIE Nottin shop NOTTING HILLing London, UK
A Visit to Notting Hill Travel Bookshop: Everything You Need ...The Travel Bookshop from the 1999 movie Notting Hill is located around the corner from The Notting Hill Bookshop on Blenheim Crescent in Notting Hill, London. The Travel Bookshop was a real shop that specialized in travel books when it opened in 1979, but it was sold to a bookstore chain in 2011 and renamed The Notting Hill Bookshop. The bookstore was inspired by the Travel Bookshop and is often surrounded by tourists. It's a small, crowded shop with a good selection, including beautiful editions of classics, souvenir totes, and free Japanese coffee. You can also look for the Travel Book Co. sign in the back of the shop as a nod to its appearance...
Read moreNote: One star because something’s not right here: the website belongs to the bookshop on 13 Blenheim Crescent but some of the photos are actually the shop on 142 Portobello Road. The fictional Travel Bookshop Co, which is a souvenir shop, is the actual exterior of William Thacker's bookshop in the film Notting Hill. It was inspired by a real-life bookshop called The Notting Hill Bookshop (formerly The Travel Book Co) on 13 Blenheim Crescent. Sadly, it is not the one in the film; but Hugh Grant’s bookshop interior was inspired by it. A lot of reviews/posts claim that the correct location or bookshop is the one on Blenheim; sorry folks, check with Google - it's the one on...
Read moreWanted to make a picture for my girlfriend who loves the movie. But the inside is just a cheap tourism trap! It advertises veeery big and intrusive with the movie cover etc. but inside, you can't even buy some movie insider gifts or simular, just idiotic and obvious "Notting Hill"- or "Notting Hill-Book Shop"-prints. Catchy for idiotic people though... At least the movie itself or a book (the place was suppost to be a bookshop) would...
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