Friday 17 August 2012

Wizarding

Today was a day for a family summer outing.

We started off with a trip to St Albans, where we had a nice lunch and a little wander around the cathedral, but this was really just a warm up for the main event of the day, which was a trip to the Harry Potter Studio Tour.

Despite not being a Harry Potter aficionado, I thought the tour was fantastic. We started off in the Great Hall, and then made our way around loads of different sets from the films, and saw lots of the props and costumes, as well as learning about how some of the effects were achieved on screen.

At the end of the tour we saw a truly amazing model of Hogwarts, which features in almost all of the films, and took almost 74 man years to build!

Here are a few photo highlights of our day.

The Great Hall Dumbledore's study Diagon Alley Diagon Alley Hogwarts model

Oh yes, and we were able to stop off for a spot of Butterbeer on the way round as well!
  
Butterbeer time

Right, must crack on with reading the books now, then I'll appreciate what I've seen today even more.