Going on the Hogwarts Express
26 July 2017 | Mallaig, Scotland
Joni
We had a delicious breakfast of croissants from the bakery next door and then did school. The train that departs from the town where Blue Hour is and arrives in another town called Fort William was the same one that was filmed in the Harry Potter movies, so we really wanted to get a ticket on it. The train was fully booked for months in advance and we didn't have a ticket, so we decided to ask if there were any empty seats when the train came in and hope for the best. We were there a few minutes early, and when the train came in we asked a lady who worked there if there were any empty seats. She said there were 4 left, so we bought the tickets. 30 seconds later, another person asked if they could but tickets, but the lady said it was all full because we had bought the last 4. On the train, we bought two sweets from Harry Potter called chocolate frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. The jelly beans were really every flavour. There were good ones like cherry and marshmallow, but there were also bad ones like vomit, earthworm, earwax, dirt and a lot more. We took turns picking jelly beans randomly from the box and trying to guess what flavour they were. The train was a steam engine, so we could see the smoke wafting past the windows. We went over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which is where the scene of the Hogwarts Express going over a bridge in the Harry Potter movies is filmed. When we got to Fort William, we took a regular modern train back to the town Mallaig where we were staying. We went for dinner at a really good pizzeria beside Blue Hour, where I had the best cheese pizza in my life.