London Walks

07/02/2025

This is London. www.walks.com

03/02/2025

Mary, the London Walks capo, was just coming up to Buckingham Palace when the drugs began to take hold. www.walks.com

03/02/2025

21st century Indian Ocean equivalent of 18th century London’s Vauxhall Gardens. www.walks.com

03/02/2025

Not London. www.walks.com

28/01/2025

⚠️For the 5th time since November Adam's Bob Dylan walking tour A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan In 60s London has sold out! We've added another extra date. Small group guaranteed, booking essential:

Going on the guided Bob Dylan In London – The Walking Tour tour? Have a read about the sights, hidden spots, your guide and meeting point!

28/01/2025

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/rugby-tour/

Yes, that’s the distinguished arts critic (and London Walks guide) Rick Jones with his nephew Scotland rugby player Huw Jones. Rick is, you see, a Renaissance man. And Rick is, you see, also he who created and guides the upcoming Rugby Tour Walk (which rides shotgun on the upcoming Six Nations Tournament). Nudge nudge, go on, go on it, see what all the fuss is about (you know, “a fine disregard for the rules” and all that). Very London Walks, that - a distinguished arts critic guiding a history of rugby football walk - talk about a fine disregard for what you’d expect. www.walks.com

28/01/2025

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/the-nell-gwynne-special/

Yes, the distinguished arts critic Rick Jones is a London Walks guide. And, yes, here he is on a walk. And, yes - three for three - he’s quite possibly the most scintillating guide in London. This tour de force moment comes on his tour de force tour, The Actress and the King. www.walks.com

28/01/2025

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/tate-britain/

Walker Rowland went on arts critic Rick Jones’s Tate Britain Tour yesterday. Here’s what he said about it: “What an absolutely delightful afternoon! Rick’s intimate knowledge of art just brings the pictures to life. His rendition of The Lady of Shalott…… AMAZING…….Learnt so much. Do not miss.” We don’t see until we understand. Thanks to our distinguished arts critic guide, London Walker Rowland now sees! It all comes down to the guiding. www.walks.com

28/01/2025

This is (not) London. www.walks.com

24/01/2025

The london Walks boss, Mary, was just outside the Abbey, waiting to meet her walkers, when the drugs began to take hold. (Yeah, I know, I used that line a few months ago, but it bears repeating.) www.walks.com

18/01/2025

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/old-kensington-londons-royal-village/

London Walks reaches the parts other… We’ll be meeting this woman and her family - three generations of them - on this afternoon’s Kensington Walk. We’ll look at extraordinary private documents - that’s right, they’re not in the public realm. Apres walk my walkers will be sent her obituary. And what’s this all about? Few women had a more remarkable war (World War II), that’s what it’s all about. Everything from meeting Kennedy to “the American General she saw to.” And the particulars are only available on London Walks (my, David’s, Kensington Walk), that’s also what it’s all about. Tooting our own horn here? Of course we are. And why not? Why wouldn’t we in a case like this? (Oh and that’s E.L.’s collection of Ascot hats.) www.walks.com

17/01/2025

https://www.walks.com/our-walks/the-friday-evening-british-museum-conversazione-vip-small-group-guaranteed/

Up for a spur of the moment? The Friday evening VIP Small Group Guaranteed Museum and Gallery tours usually sell out. But there are a couple of places available on tonight’s (Jan. 17th) VIP British Museum tour. It’s a two birds with one stone job because ace Blue Badge guide Marc has a second string to his bow. He’s also a top flight professional photographer. Take your camera. The small group makes for lots of individual attention. Get Marc’s advice on composition and ISO, shutter speed and aperture. Big bonus for anyone who likes to take photos. www.walks.com

12/01/2025

And there (here) we were on this morning’s Hampstead Walk. By the silvery pond in the woods (smack dab in the [near] centre of the greatest city on earth). That this is here (there), that we can go there (here) is an important reason why this is the greatest city on earth. The fresh air, the smell, the scene, the sound, the general feel - all interfused, it does one a power of good. Hampstead. Hampstead Heath. Yes! Double Yes! www.walks.com

12/01/2025

St John’s, Hampstead. The most beautiful church interior in London. We’ll end this morning’s Hampstead Walk here. I’ve got several very old photos, maps, etc. which are integral to the walk, to seeing and understanding Hampstead. You don’t really see something until you understand it. Normally we look at those documents outside, in situ. But it’s crispy cold this morning so those images will be saved for the last stop. In the church, seated warm. Will make for less standing (and listening) out in the cold. It’s a lot less cold when you keep moving. A veteran guide’s savvy. Did the same thing with yesterday’s Kensington Walk. Best possible way to defang sub zero - or nearly sub zero - temperatures. www.walks.com

11/01/2025

11/01/2025

Cameo role in today’s Kensington Walk. One of the three Green Men peeking through the bosses high up on the wall of the cloister porch. Yes, they’re hidden in the undergrowth. A touch of something very old, very English and, frankly, pagan in the Nazarene’s house. Love it. www.walks.com

09/01/2025

Recherché London. The blue plaque nobody (much) gets to see. It’s indoors. In Bloomsbury. Private building. You gotta know which window. And get the time of day right. And get on the right step and do some tiptoe positioning. So a sighting is very satisfying. Best thing about it, though, is that sui generis verb. Flourishes. Present tense. Flourishes as opposed to the run of the mill Lived or Died. What’s not to like.