Evening in London

After leaving the Harry Potter tour, my friend and I grabbed dinner at a small cafe in Watford, assuming that food in Watford would be considerably cheaper than food in London. I was itching to check out my Marauder's Map, but I couldn't find a spot where I felt I could open it up without fear of crumpling it or spilling something on it. After dinner, we headed back to the train station to wait for our train back to London.

It's hard to tell from this distance, but that's the Death Eater
bride as I was calling it by the end of the day!

When we were originally planning the trip, for some reason we thought that two hours at the studio tour was reasonable, so we had figured on being back in London around four o'clock. Instead, we spent over four hours at the studio tour and didn't get back to London until almost seven. We arrived back in Euston Station and decided to head to the River Thames and walk along that to see the Tower Bridge.

It was really cool walking along the Thames. I was so taken by the city, with its rich history and just the feel of the city in general. I wished I had more time to take in all the sights--to actually walk on the Tower Bridge, to tour the Globe Theatre, to climb the stairs in Big Ben, to walk through Westminster Abbey or Buckingham Palace--the list is a pretty long one. But just on our walk down the Thames, I got to see the Globe Theatre from across the river. I got to see the Tower Bridge, though my friend and I were running late, so we didn't get very close to it. And (allow me to express my love for Harry Potter again!) I got to see the foot bridge over the Thames that the Death Eaters destroyed in the beginning of Half-Blood Prince.

Once we'd seen the Tower Bridge, my friend and I decided to head back across town to catch the bus back to Stirling. We didn't know how long it would take to get back to the bus station, but we knew it was all the way across town, so we booked it back down the riverside. It was exhausting and yet really cool to know that while I was tired and my feet hurt like hell, I was in London! It was such an amazing day, I got to see and do so much. I'm so glad that I got to experience everything that I did...and all in the course of just one day too!

A tout a l'heure!