This day we had a tough schedule: First we wanted to go to the Tower of London and have a look on the crown jewels, before we eat lunch and take the tour bus to "Making of Warner bros. Harry Potter studio tour", which was my personal highlight in this holydays. But let me tell from beginning.
After our breakfast we took a bus to the Towerbridge. From there we walked further to the place in front of the Tower of London. Even if the ticket sale point didn't open yet, Karin said that it would be smart if one of us would already stand in the queue, because there will be a really huge crowd when the sale point opens. Therefore she was waiting for buying tickets, while the four others of us had a look into one of the souvernier shops. Then we were standing in a queue as well, in the one in front of the entrance. This strategy was very intelligent I think, because otherwise we would have had to wait more than one hour to get in. After we walked through the entrance, we actually wanted to follow a guide, but we just missed one and this meant that we would have had to wait half an hour for the next. So we just decided to go for our own. An other smart idea of Karin was, to visit the crown jewels before all the other tourists do this. Unfortunately it wasn't allowed to take pictures inside the building, but I won't forget this anyway. You could see every single crown that has ever been worn of an English king, queen, prince or princess, every sceptre they used, all the dishes out of gold, clothes they wore on a ceremony, weaved with finest silk and gold thread, and a lot of other very precious things from the English royality. I was most impressed of the sceptre with a diamant as big as a hen's egg, that Elizabeth II had in her crowning and of a punch bowle out of gold with so many small details that it took longer to forge it than its smith lived. After the crown jewels we went around and learned things about the history of Englands royal family. When we saw enough we decided to go out and buy a coffee at Starbucks that we will drink on the way to the Themse, where we wanted to take a boat. The boat took us a bit upwards where we walked along the river. After a while we passed BigBen and took some pictures, before we arrived the train and busstation where also our tourbus would run. Because there was a little time before we had to catch the bus and we didn't eat lunch yet, we went to a restaurant and ate hamburgers. Then it finally started. I took a short nab while the bus drove about 1,5 hours to the studio. Inside the studio self, we had three hours to watch all the filmsets, props, costumes, drawings and so on. It was so amazing I hardly can't describe it. After the battery of my camera was dead, I took a thousand more pictures with my mobile phone. In the end of the whole tour was a big fan shop with everything possible. Hogwarts school uniforms, wands of almost every fim character, pins, mugs, books and and and. When our bus took us back to London, we all were tired but lucky. This was really worth to visit!
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