Walking London, Updated Edition: Thirty Original Walks In and Around London (IMM Lifestyle Books) Routes from 2 to 6 Miles with Photos, Complete Maps, & Details of Sites, Public Transport, Pubs & More

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London’s Village Walks is a great London walking book if you like exploring the UK capital’s many urban villages.

Karen comes trailing clouds of glory. Travel & Leisure crowned her “the world’s greatest tour guide.” She hosts the Canadian television travel show “London Next Stop.” She won the London Tourist Board’s Guide of the Year award. She’s the author of Royal London. She is, quite simply, a star turn – which is why she’s the “go to” London guide for every major media concern. Why is he so special? Steve has authored over 100 guidebooks for Lonely Planet – from Turkey and Panama to Paris and London – owned a travel bookshop in Hong Kong where he lived for a dozen years and is qualified as a London Blue Badge Tourist Guide. That’s why clients say things like: ` I have met many London guides and Steve was in the top league. He avoided being boring, which is essential criteria. And another essential criterion is that he made us think – which does not always happen.’ If this were a golf tournament every single name on the Leader Board would be a London Walks guide”

1. London's Hidden Walks, Stephen Millar

From Bloomsbury to Notting Hill, Barnes to Dulwich, it features lots of walks in London neighborhoods. The routes will take you around to places that feel untouched by modern times and let you imagine a London of a bygone era.

Another of the top London walking books is Walking Pepys’s London. Samuel Pepys was a 17th-century English navy administrator and member of parliament who was famous for the diary he kept. This book covers London from his perspective. Welcome to Rather Splendid London Walks from Joolz Guides, in which I wander around London telling you fascinating facts! In this book of 20 walks I will show you some of the fun, interesting, weird and ridiculous things I’ve noticed on my travels around LondonAnd as long as we’re surveying this territory, it’s, well, reality-based to say that London Walks is also the best-loved urban walking tour company on the planet. And you know something, I wouldn’t bet against us either in the little matter of how the company is run. Indeed, it’s the world’s foremost walking tour company not least because it’s family-owned and loved and run. It’s small enough to be hands-on, big enough to benefit from a few critically important economies of scale – and to have secured for our people – our walkers – all kinds of wonderful “added value”, to open doors that wouldn’t normally be open, etc. Its long history and way of doing things are part and parcel of London Walks’ distinctive identity. (I’m tempted to say footprint.) And that’s not something that can be successfully imitated. It has to be earned. Over many years. In Mrs Thatcher’s trenchant words (different context of course), “imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but an imitation is still a fake”. Conan Hales is not a guide.* We wish he was. Not a guide but part of the team because of the contribution he’s made with his photography, especially his shots of Hampstead Heath. In recognition of which, he takes his place here. Conan Hales was born and currently lives in London. In between those two events, his global jobs have taken him to Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore. As a side note, across London, about 69% of babies have at least one parent born abroad (ONS) and he is no exception, nor is his daughter.

The walk covers everything from green spaces to abandoned railway lines, towpaths, and nature reserves as it takes you around the UK capital. And there’s no need to be coy about this: there are huge advantages that go with “owning the category” as they say in business-speak. 1) You blaze the trail you learn a great deal. 2) Your foundations go deep and they’re very solid. 3) You’ve got a very long “corporate memory” to draw on. 4) Practice makes perfect. 5) Your very ethos – let alone ways and means – is aged in the cask. And that’s no bad thing. How long are the virtual tours? An online tour lasts about an hour. It’s interactive, there’s a Q&A session at the end, more often than not, some socialising as people from all over the world gather around the ‘online fireplace’ to experience the great stories of London. Need more help? Who are we? And look, just to drive the point home: you should be going to the Cafe in the Crypt for a whole lot of other reasons in addition to its “carrying” London Walks leaflets. Reasons that are best summed up in its having been awarded the Palm d’Or in its “sector”. Yup, the Cafe in the Crypt, winner of Les Routiers London Cafe of the Year Award. And, hey, it’s not as though going to Trafalgar Square is in the least inconvenient, a detour. T-Square is, after all, the great crossroads of London, the very centre of the jampot!

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Jewish London tours guided by the author of Jewish London. Fleet Street Tours guided by a national journalist.Photography tours guided by a professional photographer. Tours guided by historians who have authored standard works on London’s history. Where do we meet? Meet your guide just outside the exit of the designated Underground Station (Tube Stop) at the designated start time – for any given London Walk or Day Trip. The guides hold up copies of the distinctive white London Walks leaflet.