The making of Harry Potter

I'm a huge fan of Harry Potter. I love the books. I love the movies. I read them over and over again, and I watch them over and over again. And I am lucky enough to share this love with my husband.

Yes, this will be me. Together with my husband.
We're good together that way. 

As I have mentioned before, we spent a weekend in London this summer, and my husband is the best travel planner partner ever. He researches everything, I plan all the logistics. This time he surprised me with researching his way into the Harry Potter universe and the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London (it's outside London so I had to figure out how to get there - which I did brilliantly).

Unfortunately I was not brilliant enough to organize our arrival in a flying car. 

When you buy your tickets, you buy a tour for a certain time in the day. When we got our tickets, there were only late tickets left, so our tour started at 5 pm. Which actually turned out to be perfect. Even though the tour started at a certain time, we were free to walk around the studios in our own tempo. Being there late in the day meant that it was less crowded and we didn't have to stand in very long lines.

We only had to wait a couple of minutes in line to get a glass of butterbeer.
It would have been worth waiting for several more minutes - it was delicious! 

There was so much to see, so much of the original sets that was still there! Like Dumbledores pensieve, the Hogwarts Bridge that was so important in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, all of Diagon Alley and a complete model of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the school grounds.

I love exploring the settings on my camera! 

The studio was open until 10 pm that evening, which was good since we spent a good 3 hours looking at everything.

For some reason the Knight Bus didn't show up when we wanted to go home,
so we had to settle with a normal bus and train. 

The tour was incredible - I feel like I've visited Hogwarts! It makes my bitterness of never receiving an acceptance letter from Hogwarts as a kid a little bit easier to live with. 

Tower of London

I guess you can go to London without visiting the Tower of London, but for me it was one of the highlights during our short, but intense weekend there.

Tower Bridge in the morning sun

I am always filled with such awe when I visit historical places. It is something about knowing that the world I live in, was shaped here.

The White Tower seen from outside Traitors' Gate

With our limited amount of time, we prioritized the Crown Jewels and a guided tour with a Yeoman Warder. If I get a chance to go there again, I'll visit the White Tower.

A Yeoman Warder

Since we had such a limited amount of time, and there were so many things we wanted to see, we decided on buying a London Pass. It was especially worth the money when it came to Tower of London since it made it possible for us to avoid the long ticket lines.

What is your London highlight?