WILLIAM (V.O.)
Of course, I've seen her films and
always thought she was, well,
fabulous -- but, you know,
million miles from the world I live
in. Which is here -- Notting Hill
-- my favourite bit of london.

There's the market on weekdays,
selling every fruit and vegetable
known to man...

The tattoo parlour -- with a guy
outside who got drunk and now can't
remember why he chose 'I Love Ken'...

The racial hair-dressers where
everyone comes out looking like the
Cookie Monster, whether they want to or not...

Then suddenly it's the weekend, and
from break of day, hundreds of stalls
appears out of nowhere, filling
Portobello Road right up to Notting Hill Gate.

And wherever you look thousands of people are buying
millions of antiques, some genuine... and some not quite so genuine.

And what's great is that lots of
friends have ended up in this part of
London -- that's Tony, architect
turned chef, who recently invested
all the money he ever earned in a new
restaurant...

So this is where I spend my days
and years -- in this small village in
the middle of a city -- in a house
with a blue door that my wife and I
bought together... before she left
me for a man who looked like Harrison
Ford, only even handsomer...
and where i lead a strange half-life with a lodger called -- Spike!

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　　（A short while later，with a cup of orange juice，William bumps into Anna，spilling his drink all over her shirt．過了一會兒，威廉手裏拿了杯橙汁，撞到了安娜身上，橙汁潑了她一身。）


William：I am so sorry，I am so sorry．Let me…


Anna：Get your hands off！


William：I am really sorry．I live just over the street，I have water and soap，you get cleaned up．


Anna：No，thank you．I just need to get my car back．


William：I also have a phone．I''m sure that in five minutes we can have yous pick and span（整齊清潔的）and back on the street again…in the nonprostitute sense obviously（絕無半點褻瀆之意）．


Anna：All right．Well，what do you mean“just over the street”？Give it to me in yards．


William：Eighteen yards．That''s my house there with the blue front door．


（In William''s house，Anna has cleaned up herself．）


William：Would you like a cup of tea before you go？


Anna：No．


William：Coffee？


Anna：No．


William：Orange juice—probably not．Something else cold—coke，water，some drink pretending to have something to do with fruits of the forest？


Anna：No．


William：Would you like something to eat？


Anna：No．


William：Do you always say“no” to everything？


Anna：No．