Arriving in the UK with our tween means looking for Harry Potter in London. Not the boy, but platform 9 3/4, a bridge, a street, the Leaky Caldron plus, as long as we are doing theater we had visit to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. A bit of a mix of the classic and the modern for our day. We will hit the rest of the London sites during the week, we have plenty of time here.
Did you know you can look for Harry Potter in London? My tween sure did. We even had a map.
And it’s not just here, we will expand our search from Harry Potter in London to Harry Potter across the UK, so be prepared for bits of magical wonder over then next month, intermixed with what we hope will be some pretty cool travel adventures in the UK and Ireland.
Our first Harry Potter spot – platform 9 3/4. Yes it really does exist at the Kings Cross station. Well technically, it’s not a real platform, but it is labeled and we took the necessary photos . . .
Next we stumbled upon this bridge which we needed to cross to get from Shakespear’s Globe Theatre to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Sarah recognized it from one of the movies:
Harry Potter bridge in the background. You can see St. Paul’s in the background.
For the bridge photo, I was standing in front of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
We took a tour inside the Globe Theater, which was preparing for s special performance of Henry VI – special in that it is one of 37 upcoming pre-Olympic performances in other languages.
We also went in search of the streets used around the Leaky Caldron. We though we had found one and as Sarah stopped to smile on a corner, a rather drunk man joined in the photo. I told him what we were doing and he assured us we were close, just one building off. . .
Check out the stranger next to my tween . . .
. . . he assured us that this boarded up building was in fact used in the third movie.
So, do Harry Potter and Shakespeare belong in the same post? What do you think?
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Welcome to London Rhonda and family, hope your enjoying it here so far Bankside by the Globe is a nice area my Dad was brought up around there,
Funny enough I think Harry Potter and Shakespeare go well in the same post
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Thanks Steve. We sure are enjoying London – although I am wondering when it will stop raining. Does the sun every come out here?
We only just missed you in London!!
We were there only 2 weeks ago!
What you’ve called the Harry Potter Bridge is more commonly called the Millenium Bridge, and we were right on the opposite side of the bridge from your photo — Just in front of St. Paul’s you can see a large brown building. That’s the school my nephews go to, and we went there for a concert that one of them played in. We ate our packed supper outside the school overlooking the Thames and looking at the bridge and the Tate Modern on the other side and then went inside for the concert
Looking forward to meeting you when you get to Israel…
Too bad we missed you. It would have been really fun, especially for Rebecca and Melissa. Thanks for naming the bridge. We look forward to meeting you in Israel as well.
The Globe was still being built when I last went down that way, and I haven’t seen the Millenium Bridge yet either. I lived in London for 15 years, and used to work in the large building with the tower that is right next to the London Eye. It used to be the HQ for Shell Petroleum, and of course the Eye wasn’t there in the 90′s.
London is great to visit as a tourist, so much to see. Not so nice if you have to work there and take public transport to work, suffering the crowds and the traffic.
Oxford has some Harry Potter scenes too. If you are going there, the walking tours of the city take you past places where they filmed Harry Potter, as well as Inspector Morse, Lewis etc.
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