Visit to Dursley's

27 March 2010

Now I hit the road for a short but exciting trip to Harry Potter's home, the Dursley's.

After a short train trip to a nearby train station, in Bracknell, I arrive at a Tesco's store and get a quick steak & cheese traditional cornish pasty :) My favourite is lamb & mint, although I don't normally eat lamb meat for some reason I could not discover during the past 30 years of my life :P

Anyways, the goal is simple: find the house, take a picture, look around, come back.

Luckily, and in fact, as I checked the map beforehand for a couple of times, I could find it easily. It's not Privet Drive though, Picket Post Close. The next neighbor was not happy to see a stranger, so I quickly got a couple of pictures and left the promises :))

Then, I went back to Guildford... But the story does not end here, this time :) I headed to London, after realizing that the trip to Dursley's was quite short for a Saturday. The new target: London Zoo... Wooooo

As I have been to many zoos in the US, this one was not so interesting for me. I must admit, the Americans are much better in Theme Park, Zoo, and the like businesses. Full of children, crying, smiling, shouting, cheerful, but everywhere.. I immediately made my plans to bring my nephew to here, next time I get here.

As a mid-sized settlement, the zoo is quite exciting. Especially the sections dedicated to birds in a big cage outdoors was interesting to see. This place was a separate section of the zoo area, set aside by a local road and connected to the main grounds by underground tunnels. Well, I got used to "subways" everywhere here in Britain. Very convenient for pedestrians to cross crowded city spots indeed. By the way, it is called a subway for pedestrian passages, and what they call an Underground is where you can find the trains :) So English: Underground, American: Subway, French: Metro... All the referring to the same thing.

As the day was attributed to Harry Potter, I chose an owl for myself and headed back to Guildford ...