Harry Potter – Travel with Intent

Ghostly creep around Greyfriars Cemetery

The fame of Greyfriars Kirkyard is attributable to both fiction and fact. It is particularly well know for Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier said to have guarded his owner’s grave […]

-Scotland

River Finnan running wild

Wild water beneath Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scotland, February 2020 This railway bridge with its 21 arches, towers 30 metres above the River Finnan and its 380 metres of length make it […]

-Scotland

“People don’t take trips… trips take people.” John Steinbeck Flying past the Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire, February 2020 It’s time for a weekly quotation-inspired image. If the quote inspires a pictorial […]

All Seasons

All Aboard

It’s looking welcoming and snowy at Hogwarts at the moment, so let’s hop on the train at Kings Cross and go visit them. All images from Harry Potter Studios, Leavesden, […]

Black and White Challenges

Shopping for a new wand?

Then check out the boxes and drawers at Ollivanders Harry Potter Warner Bros Studios, London, November 2019 – the souvenirs are approaching, beware! Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 November 2019 Posted […]

-London

Snow at Hogwarts

Snowy evening at Hogwarts, November 2019 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 26 November 2019 Posted as part of Wordless on Tuesday

Thursday Doors

Wizard shopping

These shop doors and windows on a cosy cobbled alley may be showing their age, but they certainly seem to promise some delights inside. If you haven’t worked out where […]

-Edinburgh

Open doors

Open doors in Edinburgh, August 2019: Copyright Debbie Smyth, 29 August 2019 Posted as part of Norm’s Doors

-London

Stay a while in Leadenhall Market

This market has a long, long history as a major market, starting in Roman times, and becoming an important covered market in the hands of Lord Mayor Richard ‘Dick’ Whittington […]

-London

Lamps at Leadenhall Market

This beautiful London market dates back to the 14th century but underwent a dramatic redecoration in the 1990s. It is a Grade II* Listed Building, and will be know to Harry Potter […]

-London

H is for… Harry Potter

It is now over 5 years since the last Harry Potter book was published but, if the queues at Kings Cross Station in London are anything to go by, his […]