Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Harry Potter at Warner Brothers in Leavesden

Today, Wednesday 19 October, Kris and I trained out to Watford Junction and caught a shuttle to Leavesden where the Warner Brothers Studio features the Making of Harry Potter. I went with Anna's family in the summer and loved it. I was confident Kris would love it too, and she did. Such imagination, creativity, and attention to detail is genuinely astounding.

Stephen and Ann arrived back at the flat just after we did. We decided a pub would be nice and we had seen one on the way home the other night. Annie checked on Yelp and it rated very high, so off we went to the Prince Edward. It was wonderful! After dinner, Krisy, Ann, and I caught a bus up to the big Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's to stock up on treats.

 Doors to the great hall

 Great hall fireplace

 Griffindor togs

 Hogwarts faculty costumes

 The great hall without a CGI ceiling

 Chocolate feast

Gryffindor commons room

Gryffindor boys' dorm room

 Dumbledore's office

 Potions classroom

 Hagrid's hut

 Weasley kitchen

Malfoy house

 Ministry of Magic

 Dolores Umbridge's office

 Ministry of Magic

 Hogwarts Express

 Honeyduke's sweets trolley

 Tail end of lunch

 Dursley's House

 The Knight Bus

 The Potter's Godric's-Hollow house

 Olivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley

 Diagon Alley

 The incredible scale model of Hogwarts

 Yup. We loved it.

Dinner at the Prince Edward Pub on Hereford Road
and Dawson Place

View from our table of the Houses on Dawson Place


Baked sea bass for Dickie


Roast pork loin for Krisy

 
This meal was a tie for first place on this trip

 
A wonderful dinner

Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's to buy sweets 


Such as these

 
 KBT and AW checking out

Another fun day, but we are coming to the end. There will be more, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.

2 comments:

Emily said...

I MUST do this tour! How very spectacular. I'm glad you are having such a magnificent trip!

Anna said...

I loved that place. It was so fun. I'm very sad your trip is coming to an end.