Amalina and I booked our tickets to the Warner Bros. studio tour of Harry Potter, and fyi I am a massive HP fan! Massive, sometimes I think about the whole Harry Potter story and I want to cry okay. Like how George Weasley died in the Battle of Hogwarts and Fred can never conjure the Patronus charm again because all of his happiest memories are those with George. And he's gone... But anyway, so yes I love Harry Potter.
And I was Hermione for my 21st birthday (I should probably blog about that too).
Okay, I hope that's enough proof for my undying love for HP.
Before we get to the 4pm tour that we have booked, Ama and I had the entire afternoon free. We went to the Borough Market, which we didn't visit the whole time we were there even though it was so close to our hostel, I don't know why.
I think we googled on the things we could do around the area, which then brought us to this science and technology museum with FREE ENTRY! So of course we went ahead with it.
We spent quite some time in the museum because there was so much to see. Then during lunch, Ama realised that we may be late for our scheduled tour at the HP studio! Okay, so I google-mapped the studio and it shows that we'll take about 30 minutes to travel there, which is why we took our own sweet time walking around. Since our tour is at 4pm, we thought we'll leave around 3. But turns out I googled the wrong studio! I'm so sorry. The correct studio at Leavesden will take us more than an hour to get there, and more than £10 on the tube omg. We immediately rushed to the studio, hoping to maybe get a later time-slot for our tour. And when we finally got there, we met some other tourists while waiting for the damn shuttle bus and they were late too yay!
In the end, we survived and went in with the next tour group. Here goes the most amazing Harry Potter studio!!
My £4 (i think) Butterbeer in a plastic cup
We also got to take ridiculously funny photos on a broom against a green screen, but they cost £20 per photo which I cannot understand. It was kinda overwhelming walking through the entire set for the films, and I cannot thank her enough.
Alright alright, so we ended the tour and took the tube back to central London. Had to use our credit card to top up £10 onto our oyster cards because Ama and I had absolutely no pounds left.
Oh and I really had to use the toilet at the metro station and it costs £1 to get in which I cannot understand again. And as I've said, we had no pounds left and the toilet doesn't seem to accept credit cards wtf. Then this guy came along and just gave me £1! Maybe I looked like I was gonna just pee on the ground already. Which reminds me, some guy in Brussels just gave my friends and I €4 at the metro station to buy our tickets too. They are just really kind and rich people huh.
It was our last night in London, and our flight to Frankfurt was at like 4am or something. We've checked out of our hostel, and the plan was to just hang around the lounge area. Remembering that there's a microwave at the lounge, Ama and I went to M&S and got some food, assuming that there should be cutleries at the lounge too. We were half right, there were only plastic knives. You never know you could eat spaghetti with just a knife until you have no other choices. Later that night, Ama and I figured that we could actually go upstairs to the common bathroom to freshen up, which was the best news because we have been out the entire day and probably won't have the chance to shower until we reach Kassel. So we took turns to sneak up to the bathroom, and it involves me bumping into people making out in the hallway and them giving me angry stares. I'm sorry, but your grandfather own the hallway ah? Ahem anyway, that's the end to my short four days in London!
I'll then be starting my exchange at the University of Kassel, where I'll meet some of the coolest people and have the best time there! Just to end things off, I would really love to visit London again. I feel like there's still so much more to experience there. Now that I've been to places that you're 'supposed' to go to when you're in London, I can't wait to explore more!
Guten tag for now!
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