the potterheads go to lacock

"After all this time?"

"Always."

I would have to hang my head in shame if I spent six months in the UK and never saw a Harry Potter film location. After quite a bit of mishaps with the train tickets and bus schedules and directions, Christie, Maria, Christine, Anna, and I got to Lacock Abbey where Godric's Hollow, the place where Dumbledore found Slughorn, some Hogwarts corridors, Snape's dungeon, and the room for the Mirror of Erised. But seriously, we had a fun time getting lost before even getting to the Abbey. In the video, the guy talking to Christie at the station is drawing us a map to get to the buses, and we still managed to cock it all up and get lost anyway. It was hilarious.



Anyway. To Lacock Abbey we go. I'm sure we looked like the most enthusiastic tourists there. From the minute we get off the bus, our cameras were out. The place was so quaint and cute and full of old people having a nice day out, and you just see this group of uni students mucking about trying to hunt down Harry Potter scenes. And we got ice cream. I must have looked so absolutely miserable when I came up short for change because the ice cream man threw in a free Cadbury flake for me (aw!). The town/village/thingy is really small so we wandered out of it before we even realized and came out into this huge open meadow thing. It was so expansive, I couldn't resist. I ran through that with my ice cream cone in hand like it was nobody's gatdang business. Then we all found wands and pretended like we weren't muggles.

Eventually, we made our way back into town to continue the hunt. For Slughorn's hideaway and for Lily and James' house, we wandered around quite a bit, and it was actually a little awkward once we did find those places because, who woulda thought, people actually live inside those places. Oops. Did that stop us from taking selfies and every other kind of picture? Nope. #noshame. Heading to the abbey, the lady at the front desk immediately knew we were pretty much only there to see Harry Potter scenes. Never mind the rich history of the buildings and the grounds, we were there to see some Harry-Potter-oh-my-glob-Rupert-Grint-probably-touched-these-walls-and-breathed-this-air goodness. We made a beeline for the halls/rooms that were the film locations and just goofed around and photo whored. During the following stroll through the garden, a bird shat on me. Apparently that's supposed to be good luck, and I guess it delivered about 30 minutes later. All day, I had been craving pasties like a pasty psycho. We happened to wander into a bakery, and there were pasties - hot and ready, waiting to be stuffed into my face hole.

If you wanna see awesome side-by-side comparisons of the places we visited, go to Christie's awesomesauce blog here. She always puts the scenes next to the locations in her pictures, and it always seems extra mind blowing that way.