Posts Tagged ‘Portobello’
Post it for the week-end (Nov 28-29)
November 24th, 2009 | 
Author: Another rainy week-end ahead… Smile! Just take your umbrella on an adventure…
Here’s to put you in the mood:
- The Portobello Winter festival starts this wednesdau and will have thematic nights every Wednesday till Xmas
- Don’t forget to get prepared for those Xmas parties and meals: celebrate Thanksgiving!
Feeling better? Here’s for the week-end:
- Head for the new pop-ups before they blow away with the fashion wind… Nes-cafe @ Liberty and the famous Parisian Colette on Brick Lane
- Need your weekly dose of street art? Hoorray! Mutate opens its doors again @ Portobello.
- Even Damien Hirst is back @ the White Cube Gallery. It’s still time to see his No love lost @ the Wallace collection
- Spendid news pictures @ The Royal Festival Hall…
- Alternatively hum Only you @ Proud Chelsea… Great pics of a young Elvis.
- Kids will find happiness in Covent Garden – there will be a real reindeer to pat Saturday afternoon. Parents will probably prefer the amazing jewel exhibition that flashes magic lights under UVs…
You’ll find me @ the Secret Cinema… and having an underground afternoon tea. What’s YOUR program?
Posted in Depoussierer les musees / Museums can be fun too, L'art est dans la rue / That's street art, baby!, On se voit ce week-end?/ Meet me there this week-end!, Survie des parents / Parents' survival kit, Tea-time | 
Tags: art, Brick lane, chelsea, Christmas, Covent Garden, enfants/child-friendly, film, free, gou-the / tea o'clock, London, markets, photos, Portobello, Southbank, street art, week-end! | 
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Royal gifts in Portobello Market
Portobello Market is famous for its travel through time, its cafes, its mix of stalls, its brightly coloured walls, the general happy feeling of the place.
Tourists and locals rush there for the atmosphere, joining the week-end crowd, looking here and there. One is always amazed at the huge stock of silbver teaports, the toy double decker buses or lead toy soldiers, the real and false antiques… (Have a look at Alice, you’ll be amazed!). Or even just have a stroll through the nearby streets, so much quieter, glossy doors, looking the same and different at the same time, draped with ivy sometimes…
If you love British icons, you’ll be delighted. Why not have a cup of tea with the Royal family? Having foreign friends coming for a visit? So chic to serve your Earl Grey in a jubilee cup…
Of, course, you’ll find plenty fo books and videos too… (Try the Oxfam book shop – nice collection there)
…but also stamps…
…and even thimbles…
Would would have thought Portobello was fir for a king/queen?
Portobello Market
Tube: Notting Hill
Rumage through the past @ Alice’s
Vous passez a Portobello Market? Ne ratez pas, dans la partie antiquites, cette boutique geniale en coin de rue.
Alice’s merite bien son nom et alterne entre un monde merveilleux, un melange d’epoques et la caverne d’Ali Baba. Vous y trouverez du vintage, du So British, du kitsch.
Les prix sont un peu eleves a mon gout mais… quel regal pour les yeux!
86 Portobello Road
Notting Hill
London
W11 2QD
Pas de photos dans le magasin ! No pictures inside!
Going to Portobello Market? Don’t miss this address in the antiques part.
Alice’s certainly deserves its name. Expect a nix between wonderland and Aladdin’s, alternayting periods, soooo British touches, vintage and kitsch. You won’t believe your eyes.
Prices are a bit high for my taste but what a feast for the eyes!
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