Notting Hill: Where Julia Roberts Said, "I'm Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy ..."

Located along Portobello Road, in the fashionable Notting Hill neighborhood, is a seemingly endless outdoor market.

The famous Portobello Market stretches for more than one-half mile with hundreds of stalls adjacent to colorful townhouses. Selling everything from clothing to music, souvenirs to antiques, you can do nearly any of your shopping at this market.

Thousands of people, including tourists and locals, walk the market where parts of the movie Notting Hill were filmed.

The market takes place every day except Sunday, with Saturday being the best day for shopping and people watching.

- Text and images by Robin Tarleton.

Borough Market: A Cornucopia of, Well, Everything.

Picture a market that has at least three or four stands of every kind of food you could possibly want to eat.

A market with 130 stalls displaying various foods from around the world.

A market where you could rid your tummy of hunger from cheese samples alone.

A market where you can find the hottest chili peppers known to man, the most exotic mushrooms you could consume without tripping, hundreds of freshly ground spices, the rarest of berries, and multiple types of chocolate (plus chocolate) samples that are to die for.

Where cheese is melted by the block and ostrich meat and kangaroo burgers are cooked up like they’re no big deal.

Where a whole stand is dedicated to flax seed creations, another to freshly churned butter, one to balsamic vinegar, and one to rapidly shucking oysters.

Oh, and among all of these items, you can still get your basic apples, broccoli, and bread, all at its freshest for a rather cheap rate.

This is Borough Market, one of the largest market you'll ever experience in your life.

You'll love it. Who wouldn’t?

Open Thursdays 11-5, Fridays 12-6, Saturdays 8-6. Located near the London Bridge.

- Text and images by Grace Dickinson.