she carried them with her as they walked out the wooden doors of the building and through the winding streets of the west end to oxford circus , where they caught the central line to notting hill gate and emerged from the tube stop beneath a steely london sky , then wove up portobello road past buildings painted the color of easter eggs and stalls selling everything imaginable , all the way to the little brick mews house tucked like a jewel in the center of this city she 'd so quickly grown to love .