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The Harry Potter Film Locations Taxi Safari!

YOU'VE SEEN THE FILMS,

NOW VISIT THE SET!

Ok, the London [and Oxford, etc.] Film Locations

What's this? It's stardust on wheels. that's what it is. It's a taxi tour of London and its history that includes oodles of Harry Potter film locations: Gringots Bank, The 'Cracked' Cauldron, the Knight Bus Bridge, the Flying Car crime scene, Platform 9 3/4, etc.etc. etc. Yes, heaps of etceteras are called for because to date there are 23 London scenes that appear in the series!

Cue an opening salvo of disclaimers:

DISCLAIMER: Richard's Harry Potter Film Locations Taxi Safari is not an official 'Harry Potter' event and is not endorsed, sanctioned or in any other way supported, directly or indirectly by Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, the Harry Potter book publishers or J.K.Rowling and her representatives.

All rights to the series of “Harry Potter” books are the property of J.K. Rowling and her publishers including Scholastic Press, et al. Film rights and image trademarks are the property of Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.

Want more? Okay, let's hear it from Richard himself (ok, hand on heart, I subbed it a bit - but basically it's his words, his game plan).

Okay, now let's turn the page. Turn the page because London's by no means the whole story.

Which is by way of saying, if you really want to amp it up, there are some outriding combinations Richard's put together that'll knock your socks off.

For example:

1) The London stuff and Lacock, Lacock Abbey & Hog-'thingies';

2) Or the London stuff and Blenheim Palace & Oxford(for Hog-'thingie's' Hospital, the Great Hall and Library)

3) Or the big enchilada: the London stuff and Lacock Abbey and Oxford and 4 Cannot-be-Named Drive

And that's all ye need to know. Except to tell you that Richard's a multi-tasker par excellance. Yup, you got it: he's a licensed London cabbie* and a top flight, professionally qualified Blue Badge and City of London Guide.

So drop on by if you're interested. Ring Mary, Fiona, Susan or Noel on 020 - 7624 3978 and let's have a chat. Or drop us an email: london@walks.com

*And when you remember that "doing the knowledge - learning to be a cabbie - is, they reckon, the intellectual equivalent of memorising the complete works of Shakespeare...well, you'll get my drift.

And now for an update:

Okay, wrote the above - and put it up here on the London Walks website - a few months ago. I've come back to it today, July 21, 2007. Come back to it because there's a bit more that I can add to what I said then. What I can add is that this one has been hugely popular - there's a booking virtually every day - and, what's really to the point here, the feedback has been uniformly good. Really good. Not one single negative - and just a ton of rave reviews. Over these months we've got to know Richard - and indeed what he's doing with this one - quite a bit better. And given that much fuller picture we're not at all surprised that his HP safaris have gone down so well. I suppose if you twisted my arm and said "distill it into one word" that word would be "professionalism". He's very very professional.