[HPforGrownups] HP tour?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4676

Carole wrote:

<<<I think we should all go as one big chartered group...with the cameras
whirring...we could be really tacky tourists if we put our minds to it.
Neil and Simon and Nick could be our tour guides...who wants to drive?>>>

***Bagsy not me - unless you want to die on British soil.

Heidi wrote:

I really like this idea - and I would like it even better if we could
coordinate it either with the release of book5 or the release of the
movie - and maybe add some sort of charity/support for Muggles for HP into it

Even if there is no "professional" tour as of yet, there's no reason why
*we* couldn't create one- we know EVERYTHING that's been in the public
realm, don't we?  is ANYONE on this list a travel agent?

***We know more than the author herself... at least, we think we do.

Heather said:

>Sadly I'm not a travel agent, but I think it sounds like a great idea and I
>hereby volunteer to deal with the Devon bits. IIRC Simon is a Dorset
>dweller, when he's not in Oxford so he might know the area too. Off the top
>of my head so far the trip would visit Devon, Scotland, Surrey, Gower
>Peninsula ish and London. Any other places I've forgotten? Whee do people
>think the Quidditch World Cup was held? I've been thinking about isolated
>areas but haven't yet come up with anything conclusive.

***

Then, perhaps, we could take a sleigh ride in the northern reaches of
Europe, in search of Durmstrang?  Ermmmmm - where was the Quidditch World
Cup?  Perhaps Glastonbury?  There's a big music festival held there each
year, complete with tents (garden variety) and mud. It's basically a big
area of fields with mystical connections.    

I'd be happy to drag people around London, especially if I get to use a
megaphone.  Maybe we could get JKR to come and speak to us and offer to
donate some money to a charity of her choice...

Neil  

            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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