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London & Hogwarts Adventures

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We had a fabulous 4 days in London together recently. The end turned out to be a disaster, but that is not what I will remember the most. We saw the city from 443 feet up in the air, we found several red telephone booths, we visited Buckingham Palace, we spent time in a royal children's museum, we toured the Warner Bros. Studio - where all the Harry Potter movies were filmed, we ate some fish & chips, and we visited a few family history sites together.  Saturday, Oct. 14th: Scott drove us to the Venice Airport, where we had a successful flight on RyanAir to the London Stansted Airport. I had never heard of this airport before, but it turned out to be a pretty good sized airport north of London.  We rode the Stansted Express train south toward London, changed trains once, and then walked 0.4 miles to our hotel. It took a little over an hour to get there from the airport. St. Athans Hotel is in a 200 year old building in the Bloomsbury district of London, and is full of quirky f