Yesterday was my last Friday in the UK (internal sobs), so to celebrate me and three of my friends went to London. Our destination was Watford to go to the Warner Brothers studios to see where the majority of the Harry Potter movies were filmed and we figured, "what the hell, let's make a day of it"! So we go to London early, walked around Picadilly, Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square for a bit, went into the National Gallery then grabbed some lunch in Covent Gardens. When we were in covent Gardens we went to Lush because it smells good in there and I love all their products. For those who don't know what a Lush is it's essentially a bath/body store but everything is homemade and/or organic, it's great! But while we were there we got talking to a couple of the workers. One guy was a huge Harry Potter fan (like me) and we decided that a Hogwarts Hotel is loooooooong overdue to be built! When I'm a rich writer (Ha!) I'll build it myself. Then we ran into a friend of his who worked there and I knew I would friends with her right away. She had a Harry Potter, Doctor Who AND Benedict Cumberbatch pin on her apron so naturally, she was awesome! We talked for at least twenty minutes about Sherlock and feelings associated with Sherlock and our love/hate relationship with Sherlock and places to go in London for Sherlock fans and our love of all the actors/characters and alllllll about John/Martin's new mustache!!! It's so nice how one tiny TV show can bring people together from all over the world, thanks BBC!
On the subject of Sherlock, we went to Speedy's Cafe for a late lunch/early dinner. For non-Sherlock fans, Speedy's in an on-location scene for 221B Baker Street. It's actually located on North Gower Street in North London but I made sure to find it. When we found it I was a complete giggly mess I was so excited! Just the thought that some of my favorite actors had filmed my favorite show where I was eating a corned beef sandwich was almost too much to handle. The inside of the restaurant is super tiny but they have pics from the show and pics of the cast and crew eating there all on the walls so, for my blogs sake, I can say I had dinner with Benedict Cumberbath and Martin Freeman!!!
Here I am :)
Our tour of the Harry Potter studios was at 6pm so after linner (a mix of dinner and lunch) we high-tailed it over to the train station to head to Watford Junction...
Ta-Da!!!
I started crying in line for our tour and I didn't really stop throughout the whole 2.5hr trip. The worst (or best) was when we walked into the Great Hall, I just lost it- tears, laughing, jumping, the whole shebang. I was getting some very strange looks from small children. From there, we saw so many of the sets like the Gryffindor common room, the boys' dormitory, Hagrid's hut, the Ministry, Dumbledoor's office and SO MUCH MORE!!! I got butterbeer (yummy) and got to see a miniature replica of Hogwarts which they used in filming for the wide shots of the castle. When I finally left the tour I was balling because I just kept thinking "this is my childhood and these stories and books touched so many people across the world". It's just so amazing to me that one book, one author was able to affect so many peoples' lives, it's incredible to me. Overall, I had a magnificent, geeky day. Thank you to Sherlock, Harry Potter, BBC, JK Rowling, Warner Brothers studios, Speedy's, London and my fantastic friends for making my day yesterday so so amazing (if not a little emotionally exhausting).
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