Settling into Notting Hill
We arrived in London first thing in the morning on Tuesday and took the train and taxi to our accommodations for the next two weeks: a 2 bedroom/2 bath "garden flat" in Notting Hill. (our flat is down the stairs behind the yellow sign) Garden flat means that we take a flight of stairs down from the sidewalk to enter our door. It also means that we have a small patio in the front and a larger patio in the back -- the front has very little privacy but the larger is more private (other than the upper apartments being able to look down on us). We are renting an AirBnB from a family of 4 that split their life between New York and London. They clearly are book and music lovers because there is a huge expanse of books and music CDs that line the long hallway. I think we should be quite comfortable here and we are only 10-15 minutes walk from grocery stores and tube stations, restaurants and pubs! Chuck and I were determined to stay awake until a reasonable London b...