Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Around five years ago we was on a road trip along the Pembrokeshire coast in south Wales. It is a beautiful drive and has been recognised internationally as one of the best stretches of coastline in the world. At around lunchtime on one of the days we pulled into an empty car park at Freshwater West and began walking through the sand dunes. We instantly realised that we recognised the beach but couldn’t figure out why and then suddenly we stumbled upon this….

At first we was confused as to why somebody had spelt out ‘Dobby’ in the sand with shells and then we realised – this is the beach used for Dobby’s death scene in Harry Potter! We quickly got onto the internet to confirm this. We also found out that apparently many people make the ‘pilgrimage’ to the site of Shell Cottage and found several posts with photos similar to the one above. It felt kinda strange standing at the grave of a fictional house elf but all those childhood memories came flooding back, making our visit to Freshwater West one we would never forget! For some extra nostalgia watch the link here.