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Day 7
It was a cold misty morning. People huddled each other as they walked down the street, breathing out in tiny water droplets. The bitter wind bit my eyes and chilled fingers to the bone. Pretty sure the blood temporarily froze at the tips of my reddened fingers when I took off my gloves to take photos.
Day 7
It was a cold misty morning. People huddled each other as they walked down the street, breathing out in tiny water droplets. The bitter wind bit my eyes and chilled fingers to the bone. Pretty sure the blood temporarily froze at the tips of my reddened fingers when I took off my gloves to take photos.
We were headed to the Harry Potter Studio Tour that day. Cue jokes about the dreary icy fog being caused by dementors about the place.
The fog left a visibility of only a few meters and I seriously wondered how anyone drove in this (they cancelled quite a lot of flights going out of Heathrow airport), so I was rather worried along the bus ride there. And indeed, the guy kept driving into tree branches. Then again, those tree branches were so low that any double decker bus was bound to drive into them.
This post was incredibly hard to draft because I went absolutely trigger happy inside the studio and took photos of literally everything. I was all, "Ok let's take an overview shot. Now let's take individual shots of every single tiny little prop." (I think this shows my character trait of both liking to see the overall picture and needing to obsess over details. Hahaha.)
Here's a selected photospam.
We tried butterbeer for the first time. It's nice, albeit extremely sweet. Kinda like butterscotch ice cream soda.
You can barely see the sign.
This post was incredibly hard to draft because I went absolutely trigger happy inside the studio and took photos of literally everything. I was all, "Ok let's take an overview shot. Now let's take individual shots of every single tiny little prop." (I think this shows my character trait of both liking to see the overall picture and needing to obsess over details. Hahaha.)
Here's a selected photospam.
I was trying to take a mirror shot with the Mirror of Erised,
but so was everybody else, so it was pretty impossible to get a proper shot.
We tried butterbeer for the first time. It's nice, albeit extremely sweet. Kinda like butterscotch ice cream soda.
Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Castle were my favourite exhibits.
When we were done, we headed to the Covent Garden M&S for dinner. On such a bitterly cold day (even the Londoners were complaining about it being freezing), warm food was very much appreciated. Turkey & stuffing soup, steak with onion chutney sandwich, gingerbread latte (less gingerbready than the Starbucks one though) and orange hot chocolate. My stomach is growling just thinking about it.
Cheapest seats view
That night, we went Cambridge Theatre for Matilda and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!
Matilda (there are a lot of Matildas and I forgot to check the cast board for who was on that night) and Miss Honey (Haley Flaherty) were excellent. And the alphabet scene was so cool! I loved the performances of When I Grow Up and Revolting Children.
Day 8
This was our designated shopping day. We spent the entire day along Oxford Street. The idea was to walk to Primark and start our route from there, but we got really distracted by the other stores along the way, so by the time we actually got to Primark, the sky was already dark.
Matilda (there are a lot of Matildas and I forgot to check the cast board for who was on that night) and Miss Honey (Haley Flaherty) were excellent. And the alphabet scene was so cool! I loved the performances of When I Grow Up and Revolting Children.
Day 8
This was our designated shopping day. We spent the entire day along Oxford Street. The idea was to walk to Primark and start our route from there, but we got really distracted by the other stores along the way, so by the time we actually got to Primark, the sky was already dark.
Can I just say something? The shop window displays are so lovely. Special shoutout to Selfridges to the most beautiful shop displays I have ever seen! (I've never been to Paris, but I hear the displays there are quite a sight too.)
I mean, these Londoners really know something about enticing you into their stores.
I spotted a Disney store so obviously I had to make us go inside. For old time's sake:) The whole place was running around with little girls in Tinkerbell and Cinderella and Belle and other costumes. They were absolutely adorable.
I half expected to bump into a celebrity trying to shop incognito, but much to my chagrin, this never happened. I happen to know for a fact that Katy Perry, Tom Hiddleston, Rupert Grint and Jude Law were all in London at the time I was there. And I met absolutely none of them. #nocelebrityluck
But all in all, it was a fruitful shopping day. 10 shopping bags later (along with me getting mad at a guy on the tube who wouldn't let me sit because his silly water bottle apparently needed the seat more than I did...in retrospect I should have simply sat on top of his water bottle), we were exhausted and glad to get back to the house.
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