Harry Potter Tour

Wow – What a day!
It first started waking up to cue for the 7th and last ‘Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows’ book at 12.15 and cued for 40mins until I got it in my hands. It was great the bookstore where I bought it from was next to our hotel and darren and I where feeling we were stuck in a Monoploy board Game as we were standing in Trafalgar Square on The strand and the next corner was Pall Mall and close by is Piccadilly, Fleet Street – very sereal.
Of course I had to read the first chapter before bed and would have read more except I had booked in our 12 hour ‘Harry Potter Tour’, which the driver was picking us up at 7.30am in a London Black Taxi.
Our friend Phoebe came along with us and we had a great time talking along the way to our first destination which was ‘Stonehenge’. That was so unreal, we were lucky enough to view it with a terrific storm coming up behind it. Excellent stuff for photographers.
Next stop was Lacock Village where we got to see our first of the Harry Potter locations – I will just list them and tell you when I see you what it was like to walk in the footsteps of not only a movie set but history and not Hogwarts.
At Lacock we visited the house where Harry’s parents were killed and Harry got his scar, Lacock Abbey wre they filmed classrooms for movie 1&2, the cloisters where they wrote on the wall in ‘Chamber of Secrets’ and the doorway to the Mirror Room in ‘Philsophers Stone, ‘The Whomping Willow Tree’ and some grounds scenes and courtyard scenes. We had lunch here in an Old Stable that they had made into Tearooms – very yummy home made food.
Next stop was Oxford- what an alive place that was with past Uni students getting married in every available church plus bus loads of people plus the storm had followed us from Stonehenge and decided to let us have it, but nothing would stop me from my Harry Potter Tour. We all got soaked but saw Christchurch College, where the film movie 1&2 for the stairs to the Dining Room and The Dining Room, Divinity School , where the filmed the Hospital Wing and Yule Ball practise. The kids of course had to stop in the Uni Shop and by a Oxford Jumper, which I am sure you will see as they have not taken them off.
Next back to London where we saw Kings X station, scenes filmed here were the Flying Car, Platform 9 ¾ , The clock on crossing bridge in station. Then we moved onto The Leaky Cauldren and Diagon Alley and Gringotts Banks.
It was a very full and fun day but when we got back and changed from our wet clothes I still read another chapter of the new Harry Potter.