Sep 24, 2026 · 19 min · 13 segments
Have you ever watched a film, binged a TV series or spent five minutes on TikTok and suddenly decided… **I NEED to go there?** This week on *Lattes, Luggage & Life*, we’re talking **Main Character…
So let's start off with Harry Potter.
I grew up with Harry Potter.
I was very young when the Philosopher's Stone came out, and I grew up with it along the way.
Harry Potter is definitely a go-to.
It's not as popular now.
People are still very much into Harry Potter, but there are main areas in the UK that you can go to to get that Harry Potter feeling, starting off with Scotland.
One of the biggest ones is Jacobite Steam Train.
It travels from Fort William and crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which you'll recognize from the Harry Potter films as the route of the Hogwarts Express.
This is peak main character energy.
You're sitting on the steam train.
You can go on it.
I do have customers going on it this month, actually.
You're going through the Scottish Highlands, crossing that viaduct and basically pretending that you're on your way to Hogwarts.
You can also go to Glenfinnan itself and see the viaduct from the viewpoints.
And then you've got Glen Coe, another incredible Highland location used in the Harry Potter films.
And if you're doing a proper Harry Potter trip, you've obviously got to bring London into it.
You've got King's Cross Station for Platform 9 3/4, where you can get the photograph disappearing through the wall.
If you are a hardcore Harry Potter fan, you will also know that King's Cross Station used to do a Back to Hogwarts Day, which was the 1st of September every year.
They do no longer do this, which is really sad because I would have loved to have gone that.
But basically, lots of Harry Potter fans went down there for the countdown of Back to Hogwarts, and they would have an announcement at 11:00 AM.
But unfortunately, they stopped doing that, and I understand why, because it did fill up the whole of the station when people just wanted to go to work.
You've got Leadenhall Market, which was used for scenes around the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley in the first film.
And then of course you've got the biggest one, which is Warner Bros.
And if you haven't been here, you need to go.
So let's start off with Harry Potter.
I grew up with Harry Potter.
I was very young when the Philosopher's Stone came out, and I grew up with it along the way.
Harry Potter is definitely a go-to.
It's not as popular now.
People are still very much into Harry Potter, but there are main areas in the UK that you can go to to get that Harry Potter feeling, starting off with Scotland.
One of the biggest ones is Jacobite Steam Train.
It travels from Fort William and crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which you'll recognize from the Harry Potter films as the route of the Hogwarts Express.
This is peak main character energy.
You're sitting on the steam train.
You can go on it.
I do have customers going on it this month, actually.
You're going through the Scottish Highlands, crossing that viaduct and basically pretending that you're on your way to Hogwarts.
You can also go to Glenfinnan itself and see the viaduct from the viewpoints.
And then you've got Glen Coe, another incredible Highland location used in the Harry Potter films.
And if you're doing a proper Harry Potter trip, you've obviously got to bring London into it.
You've got King's Cross Station for Platform 9 3/4, where you can get the photograph disappearing through the wall.
If you are a hardcore Harry Potter fan, you will also know that King's Cross Station used to do a Back to Hogwarts Day, which was the 1st of September every year.
They do no longer do this, which is really sad because I would have loved to have gone that.
But basically, lots of Harry Potter fans went down there for the countdown of Back to Hogwarts, and they would have an announcement at 11:00 AM.
But unfortunately, they stopped doing that, and I understand why, because it did fill up the whole of the station when people just wanted to go to work.
You've got Leadenhall Market, which was used for scenes around the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley in the first film.
And then of course you've got the biggest one, which is Warner Bros.
And if you haven't been here, you need to go.
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