At the Travel Bookshop featured in the film Notting Hill. For a list of the best “Classic Travel Writing,” go here.

And now…I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna quote Notting Hill…just because I enjoy picturing Hugh Grant doing this scene:

William: Whoopsidaisies! 

Anna Scott: What did you say? 

William: Nothing.

Anna Scott: Yes, you did.

William: No, I didn’t.

Anna Scott: You said “whoopsidaisies.”

William: I don’t think so. No one says “whoopsidaisies” do they? Unless they’re…

Anna Scott: There *is* no “unless.” No one has said “whoopsidaisies” for fifty years and even then it was only little girls with blonde ringlets. 

William: Exactly. Here we go again. 

[He falls off the fence again] 

William: Whoopsidaisies. It’s a disease I’ve got. It’s a clinical thing. I’m taking pills and having injections. It won’t last long.