My Blogsite has turned French so I can only hope this is coming out in English. Had a busy 36 hours or however long it was. We left our hotel in Gloucester on Thursday morning and the rest of the day was a little dicey. We managed to see the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral where they shot many of the corridor scenes for the first couple HP movies. What we didn't know was that there was a flower show going on that day at the cathedral. We were there quite a while following around little old English folks. They didn't much care about our pilgrimage.
Made it out of there just in time for the last tour of Stonehenge to leave Salisbury that day. Amazing sight, which I always thought was just a boring bunch of rocks. Now that I've seen it, I'm glad we made the trek.
Finally we were back to London for the movie premier of HP. You could tell strange things were about when we saw potter costumes on the tube. We got out at Leicester Square and there was Potter everywhere. Folks were queued for the film hours before and we had assigned seats. We went to eat. I was excited but not enough to sit outside for no real good reason.
When the time came it was extra-specially amazing to be there and hear the crowd go wild each time a favorite character came on for the first time. Even more cool that we had just visited many of he sites in the movie. It was great, it was sad but a perfect, perfect end.
We won't talk about Taylor being introduced to the London party crowds at 3:00 a.m and my panic (almost) that we were never going to get a cab at that hour. I won't mention us walking the streets of Bayswater at 4:30 hailing another cab to the train station. All ended well, but it was a little sketch for a bit.
Final note, because I've got a headache, we left London last night through St Pancras Station, which ironically was the train station they show in the final scenes of the movie. I don't know how it happened that we left from that station, but I think there might have been a little magic involved.
More on Paris tomorrow. We are here and safe.
Yes we can read it. Everything looks good from here.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to be in London for the premiere and all around seeing movie sites to boot. As I read this post, I realized that I was at Stone Henge and at Salisbury Cathedral 27 years ago today on a trip I took after I graduated college.....bet they haven't changed as much as I have!
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