They should set it in Slough, and have her recite John Betjeman’s poem about the place.
Greggs
M&M world.
Harrods with the habibis, followed up with the next season in Dubai and Doha
Barcelona on Thames aka Barking Riverside, some of the freshest air in Greater London
Skegness
Cafè Concerto where she belongs
The nearest police station to report a snatched phone
Dishoom, she’d probably turn up in a sari
She goes to Harrods and meets cockney boyfriend, he eats jellied eels and drinks pints of bitter. But his family own 60 acres of Berkshire and they have horses
Boss mans kebab shop
Nando’s
she would live in portobello road or notting hill and run through hampstead heath or on the thames, even if it didnt make geographical sense, and there would be the shot of her running past big ben for tv
Apparently a lot of the time the Eiffel Tower is visible in the wrong direction and far larger than it should be. The director presumably thought that the audience might forget where Emily is without the one landmark he knows being in every scene.
Personally, can’t wait to see Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in the back of every shot no matter where in London she is. Dancing round Kensington Palace? There it is. Staring in awe at an unnaturally-empty Leicester Square? It’s right behind her. Putting photos of St Paul’s on her insta with tags like “hiddenwonders”? It’s sneaking on her again!
Back to Paris
All I know is that she’d be transporting herself from A to B via the music playing tuk tuks / rickshaws, forget black cabs, Uber or TfL. She’s used to a life of luxury, only £250 a trip!
Notting Hill where she would live in a 6 bedroom – 4 million pounds Victorian mansion that she would house share with just one roommate so you know it is a bit believable.
Soho House
She’d definitely spend most of her time in posh West London, Notting Hill etc. Probably living in a very cute mews.
She’d frequent food markets, events at the Shard or the Ritz. Morning runs in Kensington Gardens, or Battersea Park.
There would definitely be lots of atmospheric rain, probably an English lad would rescue her with a handy brolly.
I can see romantic scenes in parks with views like Primrose Hill. Late night walks by the Thames, Tower Bridge.
Trips to the the Cotswolds maybe as far as Cornwall.
– Emilie gets her phone snatched at Bethnal Green. – Emilie vomits her kebab outside Farringdon station. – Emilie gets knocked down her Lime bike by Chancery Lane – Emilie gets stuck on the District line. – Emilie has her debit card details copied while paying £2 to get cash out in a corner shop ATM because her black cab card machine ´is broken’.
Plenty for her to get around in London.
Nelson Mandela House. Peckham. Lovely jubbly.
Somewhere in Kensington or Chelsea or Mayfair or Notting Hill. Basically in Zone 1 or 2, north of the river in a posh area.
Millwall away
Cute little apartment with a view of Big Ben, London Eye and St Paul’s.
At least she’ll speak the language this time
Can she not just stay in France until she learns the fucking language?
Whimsical £20 chocolate strawberries in Borough Mariet, bumps into a 23 year old floppy haired finance type called Olly, falls in love, moves into a house on Portobello road, gets hit by a no.27 bus, amnesia, wakes up as a kebab shop owner in Kentish town.
Morleys in Brockley and a visit to Catford to meet Fritz for some London knowledge
Realistically she’d live in notting hill
Just make it “Emily in Europe” and have her do all capitals, one per season, for the next 49 years.
Harrods, Nandos, a pub crawl, throwing up on the streets, sleeping on the bus
Emily is a Clapham girlie if I ever did see one
Flirting with a horse guard
Battersea Power Station station and environs, to marvel at this quaint, historic, charming, authentic, cockney riverside neighbourhood.
I could see Emily having a nice steak dinner at London’s premier steakhouse chain
All I know is she would have a large 3 bedroom flat with a walk in wardrobe in Notting Hill on her assistant wage and no one will explain how she can afford it
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Angus steakhouse, for sure.
Croydon – Just to see how she copes.
(Disclaimer – Am from Croydon)
Brixton station maccies on a Saturday night
They should set it in Slough, and have her recite John Betjeman’s poem about the place.
Greggs
M&M world.
Harrods with the habibis, followed up with the next season in Dubai and Doha
Barcelona on Thames aka Barking Riverside, some of the freshest air in Greater London
Skegness
Cafè Concerto where she belongs
The nearest police station to report a snatched phone
Dishoom, she’d probably turn up in a sari
She goes to Harrods and meets cockney boyfriend, he eats jellied eels and drinks pints of bitter. But his family own 60 acres of Berkshire and they have horses
Boss mans kebab shop
Nando’s
she would live in portobello road or notting hill and run through hampstead heath or on the thames, even if it didnt make geographical sense, and there would be the shot of her running past big ben for tv
Apparently a lot of the time the Eiffel Tower is visible in the wrong direction and far larger than it should be. The director presumably thought that the audience might forget where Emily is without the one landmark he knows being in every scene.
Personally, can’t wait to see Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in the back of every shot no matter where in London she is. Dancing round Kensington Palace? There it is. Staring in awe at an unnaturally-empty Leicester Square? It’s right behind her. Putting photos of St Paul’s on her insta with tags like “hiddenwonders”? It’s sneaking on her again!
Back to Paris
All I know is that she’d be transporting herself from A to B via the music playing tuk tuks / rickshaws, forget black cabs, Uber or TfL. She’s used to a life of luxury, only £250 a trip!
Notting Hill where she would live in a 6 bedroom – 4 million pounds Victorian mansion that she would house share with just one roommate so you know it is a bit believable.
Soho House
She’d definitely spend most of her time in posh West London, Notting Hill etc. Probably living in a very cute mews.
She’d frequent food markets, events at the Shard or the Ritz. Morning runs in Kensington Gardens, or Battersea Park.
There would definitely be lots of atmospheric rain, probably an English lad would rescue her with a handy brolly.
I can see romantic scenes in parks with views like Primrose Hill. Late night walks by the Thames, Tower Bridge.
Trips to the the Cotswolds maybe as far as Cornwall.
– Emilie gets her phone snatched at Bethnal Green.
– Emilie vomits her kebab outside Farringdon station.
– Emilie gets knocked down her Lime bike by Chancery Lane
– Emilie gets stuck on the District line.
– Emilie has her debit card details copied while paying £2 to get cash out in a corner shop ATM because her black cab card machine ´is broken’.
Plenty for her to get around in London.
Nelson Mandela House. Peckham. Lovely jubbly.
Somewhere in Kensington or Chelsea or Mayfair or Notting Hill.
Basically in Zone 1 or 2, north of the river in a posh area.
Millwall away
Cute little apartment with a view of Big Ben, London Eye and St Paul’s.
At least she’ll speak the language this time
Can she not just stay in France until she learns the fucking language?
Whimsical £20 chocolate strawberries in Borough Mariet, bumps into a 23 year old floppy haired finance type called Olly, falls in love, moves into a house on Portobello road, gets hit by a no.27 bus, amnesia, wakes up as a kebab shop owner in Kentish town.
Morleys in Brockley and a visit to Catford to meet Fritz for some London knowledge
Realistically she’d live in notting hill
Just make it “Emily in Europe” and have her do all capitals, one per season, for the next 49 years.
Harrods, Nandos, a pub crawl, throwing up on the streets, sleeping on the bus
Emily is a Clapham girlie if I ever did see one
Flirting with a horse guard
Battersea Power Station station and environs, to marvel at this quaint, historic, charming, authentic, cockney riverside neighbourhood.
I could see Emily having a nice steak dinner at London’s premier steakhouse chain
All I know is she would have a large 3 bedroom flat with a walk in wardrobe in Notting Hill on her assistant wage and no one will explain how she can afford it
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