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Harry Potter Walks London.

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

We are going to take a break from our London walks of art and return to the theme of our great Free Harry Potter Tour of London.

We are currently receiving around 20 requests a day for our London walks Harry Potter Treasure Hunt and Walking Tour and are receiving some pretty good feedback from people who have taken it and have enjoyed it immensely.

The Harry Potter film locations walk was updated at the end of September, following the closure of the Thames Footpath between Blackfriars Bridge and The Founders Arms Pub.

This section of the London Riverside Walks is going to be closed for sometime, a few years at least, but the detour isn’t that bad and adds, at most an extra fifteen minutes walking onto the Harry Potter London Tour.

If you are not familiar with this great free London walk then it is a full tour of London that takes in the movie locations where the Harry Potter films are shot.

So, for example, we visit Diagon Alley, the Leaky Cauldron, Platform nine and three quarters, not to mention Gringotts bank and sundry other locations associated with the Harry Potter locations in London.

But the tour is also a fully paced out London Walking Tour that is structured to include a London Treasure Hunt so that parents with children can enjoy a memorable day out in London that won’t cost the earth.

To receive this memorable one of our London walks you simply have to send an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and, before you can say Hogwarts, the full downloadable pdf will be winging its way to you.

You simply then print it off (it runs to 30 pages) and then go off an explore Harry Potter’s London at your own pace and in your won time.

It’s as simple as that!

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Walks In Harry Potter’s London

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Platform nine-and-three-quarters has moved!

Yes, you read it right. They have moved platform nine-and-three quarters at King’s Cross Station whilst building work goes on.

King’s Cross is currently undergoing a major renovation and this has affected several of the locations featured on our London walks.

You used to arrive at Platform nine-and-three-quarters by strolling along Platform eight and then turning left towards platforms 9,10 and 11.

Not any more though. As those who have requested our free Harry Potter London walks PDF will know, if you arrive at the old location you will find an information board telling you that the platform has moved. They do provide a map to help you discover this major Harry Potter London attraction, but of course it is much better to just go straight to the new location.

You can do that very easily by just walking straight down Platform eight, passing the Ticket Office and the Left Luggage Office. Having gone past the bike stands next the next turning left and there on the left you will find a luggage trolley embedded in the walk and above it the sign for Platform 9 3/4.

For those who want to follow our free self guided London walks around the Harry Potter film location sites. You can still request out Harry Potter Tour PDF.

This 30 page very detailed booklet is a print off and follow fully researched London walk around the Harry Potter sites all over London.

To receive your copy of the PDF please just email us at

harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com

and we’ll send you the free 30 page pdf by return.

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Free Walking Tour

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Be sure to email us for one of our most popular ever free London walks.

Our Harry Potter  London walk has been well received by people all over the world and in the next few days we are hoping to achieve the magical figure of 1,000 requests for the PDF.

The premise behind our Harry Potter London walk is that we send you a fully researched PDF which consists of 27 pages. It is a step by step Harry Potter London Tour that, at a pinch, can be completed in one day, but which is best done over a period of several days.

This one of our free walks takes you all over London, beginning at Temple Underground Station and walking past the film locations used in the Harry Potter Movies.

You’ll see everything from Diagon Alley to Platform 9 3/4’s at King’s Cross Railway Station. Betwixt and between you will also be able to enjoy a free family London Treasure Hunt in the course of which the kids will have to be on the look out for funny faces carved into buildings or even Rats tails in an old London Church!!

There is a lot of history included in the PDF, which parents and children will find equally fascinating. We tell you why “London Bridge is Falling Down.” We tell you about the journey of Nelson’s body back from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 when he was pickled to preserve him.

The beauty of our free Harry Potter London Tour is that, unlike scheduled London walks, you won’t be crammed on to a tour with 40 or 50 other people. You will be free to do the tour when you want, at a pace you decide on, and should you get tired or it starts to rain, you can give up on that day and then return another day to complete the route.

No other London walks company offers this service. But it is all part of our commttment to sharing London with people all over the world and we hope to be offering lots more free London tours in the near future.

So to receive your copy of our Harry Potter’s London PDF just fill in the quick contact form at the top of the page and we’ll get one over to you.

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