True Love

Summer in London and in Notting Hill, could life be better? Last night dinner in the sun at Westbourne Park Road, then drinks outside the Cow for hours. Loads of people, buzzling, thriving, chatting, enjoying the sun, the summer, the warmth. This town is just so filled with energy! Read somewhere that London is becoming the most popular towns in the world (not that me and my logic brain can understand just how on earth they can calculate this but let´s not be boring now)! Having spent a good part of my life in London and England since late 80ties, I really think it´s changed so much. Ok, it´s still big and clumsy, but things are improving, moderinizing, becoming more efficient, cleaner, better.

And the energy. I don´t understand what it is, but I just get energy from it all. Looking out from my window in my, almost, done-up flat, I see the market at Portobello waking up and people are gazing through the racks of vintage clothing, having a coffee, skinning up a spliff and relaxing under a big leafy tree.. And I just can´t wait to get out of there.

It´s the people that does it. After 2,5 years in the hood, I start feeling like home and I nod to people like a proper domestic. It´s something beautifully decandent and age-less about Notting Hill that I hope will never disappear. Heard the other day that Chanel is opening up on Westbourne Grove. This is all very sad, since sooner or later the old antique-shops the book-stores and the quirky coffee shops will have to shut down, since the rents are going to go sky rocket!

One of my favorite people in the hood is this tall and rather handsome guy in his fourties, with a bush of flowing whitening hair, always wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. I always see him going forth and back in the hood on his skateboard with a motor on! It just looks so funny. And it´s rather speedy and he just stands leisurly on it having a smoke.

See you later, am going out on a date with my true boyfriend, London.