Diagon Alley!

Unexpected perk of the Jack the Ripper tour: we walked through the alley where many of the exterior shots for Diagon Alley were filmed. The tour guide told us it was coming and I thought "um, ok." But when we walked in I totally geeked out because it was so completely Diagon Alley.

I'll go back during the day and get better pictures. I was simply too excited not to say something about it now.

Oh, and the Jack the Ripper tour? Gruesome. The tour guide has a projector and at various points he projects on the wall or ground sketch artist renderings or actual photographs of the victims where they were found.

After listening to the description of the third woman being sliced and then "splayed open with her intestines drawn out and trailed over her right shoulder," the man behind me whispered (loudly) to his companion "I don't want the verb 'splayed' to ever be used to describe my body." That lightened the appalling scene for me somewhat because I was trying not to laugh, but it was still pretty horrific.

That said, it's a fun tour. I would recommend it. But when the guide says "if you're squeamish you might want to look away," BELIEVE HIM.