London Walks

29/12/2024

This morning’s Hampstead Walk. Whitestone Pond. Visibility was, well, almost level pe***ng with invisible. Glad we got to, er, see it. www.walks.com

26/12/2024

London. Expect the unexpected is the order of the day. So this was Sunday’s Hampstead Walk. On the Heath. That’s Maisie. Brightest dog in Hampstead. She’s worked out that the footpath is a trough of sorts. If she drops the ball in it gravity will take over and get it down to her human. Save her running down there and dropping it at his feet. Clever, clever girl. I asked her human about it. He said, “we didn’t teach her how to do that, she taught us.” Hard to improve that walk but Maisie did. I practically had to drag them away. www.walks.com

26/12/2024

Guide extraordinaire (and distinguished arts critic) Rick Jones in full regalia for today’s Christmas Day Charles Dickens’ London Walk. www.walks.com

24/12/2024

This is so London Library. London at its best. Elegantly tall, perfectly proportioned door. Handsome, dark stained wood. Brass k**b. And especially that appellation: Gentlemen. Draws that refined, all important distinction. No truck with that no thought given, slapdash MEN. Or one of those vulgar, insults the intelligence figure in trousers logos. They’ve even nailed the punctuation: the capital G to start with. Class act, the London Library. One of my top “happy places” - though they’d abhor that appellation! was.walks.com

22/12/2024

London. Excels at doing the unexpected. We got up there - up on the roof of London (summit of Hampstead Heath), coldest day of the year. And there she was. With her minders (ok, her film crew). Yeah, this is London. Catch you out every time. www.walks.com

16/12/2024

This is London. 103rd Annual Barber Poles Convention. www.walks.com

12/12/2024

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. In London. www.walks.com

04/12/2024

Face off. Sizing up. In London.

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04/12/2024

This is London. A presence - and absence - of Hell’s Angels. My guess: they’ve all gone for a ti**le. This is Tate Britain. www.walks.com

23/11/2024

The lass at the window. Yes, she’s in Fitzrovia. www.walks.com

23/11/2024

Handsomest big lamps in London? I think they’re to be found in Fitzrovia. www.walks.com

20/11/2024

Swinging London. New London Walks tour tomorrow (Thursday, November 21st): The Wallace Collection. Full particulars on www.walks.com

18/11/2024

We were just crossing the Strand, near Charing Cross, when the drugs began to take hold. www.walks.com

10/11/2024

Bedouin teapot being readied. At an oasis. In a wadi. In the desert. Near Dahab. Egypt. This is… Not London. www.walks.com

03/11/2024

Twenty minutes before the start of my favourite walk, Old Hampstead - Village and Heath. In one of my favourite Hampstead locales. Our walk will end here 150 minutes or so from now. www.walks.com

30/10/2024

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/old-kensington-londons-royal-village/ Kensington. Afterglow. (Afterglow is the glow that remains in the sky and on the leaves and buildings after the sun has set.) We’ll be here glowing at this on tomorrow’s and Saturday’s Kensington Walk. Maybe see one or two of you on same. www.walks.com

25/10/2024

Only 3 days to go until the launch of The Monday Night Music History Club on Zoom. In episode one Adam will take us off in search of the lac bug in Asia and Mexico, go walkies with Nipper the dog, trace the origin of the Notting Hill Carnival to an office above a record shop in Brixton, track the North London & Chicago locations of Nick Hornby's book (and movie) High Fidelity and take you shopping in the world's oldest record store (founded 1894).
Subscribers can join him live on Monday at 7.30pm or watch on demand any time. Info & booking here: https://www.walks.com/our-walks/mondaymusichistoryclubseries/