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THE LONDON WALKS CALENDARThe schedule virtually all the way through May is now in calendar form. And more in the pipeline. It's just so intuitive.
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Criminal Defence Lawyer Guidesour Legal & Illegal Westminster Walk on Monday, May 14th. 10.30 am, St. James's Park Tube (meet outside the Broadway exit).
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FAB DAY TRIPSStonehenge & Salisbury on Tuesday (9.15 am, main ticket office, Waterloo Railway Station). The Cotswolds & Oxford on Wednesday (9.15 am, main ticket office, Paddington Railway Station). And St. Albans – an England in miniature on Sunday, May 13. Meet 10 am West Hampstead Tube. Why go? The link tells you why.
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NEW WALK ON SUNDAYVauxhall Unveiled – Local London mojo, Undiscovered London uncovered.
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The Banksy & Co. SafariArt to find! Up close and personal with the dynamic east London street art scene. Runs Sunday, May 20. Meet Pepe at 10.45 am outside the Bishopsgate exit of Liverpool Street Tube Stop.
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Sneak Previewof the MAJOR changes coming to www.walks.com. PLEASE take a look and tell us what you think.
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Don's 2012 DatesThe dates that Donald Rumbelow – "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper" – will be guiding the Ripper Walk in 2012 are now up.
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Introducing the Summer 2012London Walks Programme! Click and dive in...
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The Summer 2012 Day Tripsprogramme has just been published.
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The Weekday Day Trips Season
is underway! It's Stonehenge & Salisbury every Tuesday (9.15 am from the main ticket office of Waterloo Railway Station); Oxford & the Cotswolds every Wednesday (9.15 am from the main ticket office of Paddington Railway Station). And from May 17 it'll be Bath (9 am every Thursday* from the main ticket office of Paddington Railway station). *Through Sept. 27
Olympics WalksThe Olympics Walks schedule for Spring-early Summer (May 1 onward) has just gone up. In the Spring-early Summer programme it'll take place daily at 2.15 pm. And in the Spring-Summer programme on Saturdays and Sundays it'll also go at 10.45 am. That's in addition to the daily 2.15 pm walk.
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The Queen's Jubilee WalkDiamonds are Forever! is another new walk that will be coming in to the Spring-early Summer programme. It'll run Mondays at 2.30 pm from Westminster Tube, exit 4.
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Summer 2012 Day TripsOkay, the programme is ready for your inspection, m' lords and ladies. Diaries at the ready?
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Thames Mudlarking ScheduleBeachcombing with the world's leading expert on this stretch of the Thames foreshore. Can't be bad! A link-click takes you to the Spring-Summer 2012 schedule.
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And Here's Some MoreThe 2.30 pm Saturday Tour du Jour schedule for Summer 2012 has just been published!
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More Coming Your Way!The 2.30 pm Sunday Tour du Jour schedule for 2012 has just been published.
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Coming your way!The 1045 am Saturday Tour du Jour schedule for Summer 2012 has just been published!
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And Another New Walkfor Summer 2012
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Several New Walks Coming!In the Summer programme. Here's one of them.
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The Game!on the London Walks Blog. "...want to thank you for all the daily tidbits about London which i absolutely adore, I also thank you for this cool game which I'm starting to enjoy a lot! :-) Cheers!" Two clicks and a scroll down takes you there.
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Behind the Termini WalksHere are the particulars for Rachel's Summer 2012 Behind the Termini walks. And she's penned a tasty little blurb for each of them.
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Old Mayfair – the Photo EssayIt's our sexiest photo essay. Take a look and you'll, er, see why. it's just gone up.
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Looking ahead to next summer?Get your diaries out. Most of the Saturday Day Trips from London schedule for Summer 2012 is now ready for your delectation!
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Fitzrovia – The Photo EssayHere it is...
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GOTCHA!The Lord Mayor of London and Guide Jean in their finery on a London Walk on Christmas Eve!
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PHOTO COMPETITION"12 significant photographs in a year is a good crop" Ansel Adams
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UNDERGROUND LONDONBanksy & Co. – The Street Art Safari. 10.45 am from Liverpool Street Tube, Sunday, May 20. Guided by a collector! Visits a studio. Also runs on June 17, Sept. 9 and Oct. 21.
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Huge Discount! London Walksdoes it again! We've secured, for our walkers, a great discount on the price of admission to the Museum of London's major new Dickens & London Exhibition.
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Guided by the Stars!London Walks has better guides – including the distinguished crime historian who is "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper"! Here are the dates Britain's foremost crime historian will be guiding the Ripper walk between now and the end of February.
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Don't Just Take It From UsJust out. A fab review of Shaughan's Old Jewish Quarter Walk
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Real ScreamsThis little film is why you book a private ghost walk with London Walks.
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Proper Tea in London!
Want the real thing? Rather than a cup of hot water and a teabag. And most definitely rather than something that costs a king's ransom. Well, let London Walks beam you in. Get in touch and we'll tell you where. Local knowledge – you can't beat it!
Harry Potter Film LocationsWe've made a delightful film of one of our Harry Potter Film Locations Walks...
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The San Francisco Chroniclehas just given London Walks a rave review – "the unfailingly fascinating London Walks", etc. etc. etc. Yet another one for the What They Say About LW trophy case.
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Amy WinehouseHer neighbourhood (photo essay and some accompanying historical remarks)...
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Don's Capitol Hill AddressYes, the International Homicide Investigators Association wanted to hear from the world's leading expert on Jack the Ripper. And that's what we mean when we say "There's no comparison" between London Walks guides and the knock-offs.
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London Walks guides have four!
books in the pipeline. Aunties' Charley, Charles' autobiography, is published next month. To be followed by a London Stories companion volume – it takes as its subject our Day Trip, out-of-town destinations. And Rachel's book on Jewish London. And "The World's Greatest Guide" – Karen's – on Royal London.
The Knightsbridge Pub Walkevery Friday night. If you're tempted, go for it. It's a great walk. Here's a really detailed description – with photos.
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After the WeddingThe Royal Wedding Unveiled walk will take place every Monday afternoon at 2 pm. Meeting point is just outside the Green Park exit – in the park itself in other words – of Green Park Tube.
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It's the Ultimate Accolade!In the starting lineup of "The World's Greatest Guides". Yes, it's London Walks guide Karen. The august American travel publication Travel & Leisure has just crowned her in their "The World's Greatest Tour Guides" article. She's one of just 15 – and, yes, the only one from England.
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Tugs All Your Heart Strings!It's about a little Londoner – a 3-year-old – and Moo Moo and the Northern Line and a couple of heroes...
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Legal & Illegal LondonA private Legal London walk guided by a barrister – a member of one of the Inns of Court – is as good as it gets.
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Brain SurgeryIf I have to have it
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The Olympics WalkAn update
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The Day Trips From LondonThe full Summer 2011 programme is now ready for your inspection (and delectation).
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Dreaming of the CotswoldsHere's why...
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It's a Feast!
Foodies' London has now got is own website.
www.foodieslondon.com
Compliments to the Chef!
10 out of 10You want to read something that's both powerful – and magical – about our town and our times and past times (with a couple of stunning photos to accompany it) hit the link
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London Walks on BBC
"Helen Marks discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames" is how the BBC is trailing the Radio 4 programme on Thames Beachcombing. It's aired bright and early – 6.07-6.30 am – on New Year's Day. And then available on BBC Iplayer. And there'll be a rebroadcast.
London Ghost WalksThe new London Walks website – www.londonghostwalks.com – is up and running. It's Adam-written and designed, so it's witty and classy.
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The Man is back –and guiding! Back from China, Donald Rumbelow, "internationally recogised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper", will be guiding the nightly – 7.30 pm from Tower Hill Tube – Jack the Ripper Walk on...
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YEAR-ROUND!Yes, London Walks operates year-round!
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Blog - TwitterFree Walks...
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The SmorgasbordThe 300+ "one-offs" and "occasionals" we're doing this summer are set out chronologically on the Special Walks page.
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Free Walks!Etc. Quite a lot of etc.
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Old Jewish QuarterCheck it out – the film of the walk.
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Trafalgar Square
equals London Walks Summer 2011 leaflets! The Cafe in the Crypt at St. Martin-in-the-Fields church has 'em.
Here It Is!The at-a-glance list of all of our out-of-town trips (to Stonehenge, Oxford, Winchester, Cambridge, Hampton Court, Bath, Rye, Constable Country, Lavenham, Avebury & Lacock, Glastonbury & Wells, Leeds Castle, St. Albans, The Cotswolds, etc.) this summer. All 128 of them!
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The London Walks Walkers Facebook GroupNine compelling reasons why you should seriously think about signing up for it
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"Donald Rumbelow is internationally recognised as theleading authority on Jack the Ripper". Don regularly guides our Ripper Walk. His schedule (April to mid-Sept.) is now up.
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"Your Blogis wonderful! Who writes it?"
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The Hampstead Filmis here
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It's Here!The new film of our Bath trip
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More Filmson the way!
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Like Halley's CometIt's just once or twice a century
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See It Before 2012Click the link for review, photo, and soundbite.
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And Lookee There!
Ghost? caught on a photograph on our ghost walk? See the London Walks blog.
"If this was a golftournament every name on the Leader Board would be a London Walks guide"
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The Filmof our British Museum Tour premieres here!
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Fireworks!tongued with fire
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Who wants to seethe Queen?
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Our New Film isa brilliant taster of the "Somewhere Else" London Walk...
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London Walks FilmsCheck 'em out.
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Walks & KidsHere's a tip
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Thinking aboutgoing on the Oxford & Cotswolds trip? Here's a review.
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Ghost Walk FilmIt's here
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Away We Go!Stonehenge Tuesdays, Oxford & Cotswolds Wednesdays
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London Walks WalkersThis is for you, compliments of the sparkplug, the live wire...
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Our New Filmstars Greenwich and the Prince of Guides, Nick. Brilliant walk, brilliant guide. You can see it here.
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The Jack the Ripper Walk Filmand other matters (the book, the blog, etc.)
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And the Gold Medalgoes to...
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The Videoof our Cambridge trip! To see it click the link.
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Don't let them bait and switch you!This'll take care of it...
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BeachcombingHere's what The Guardian says about it...
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Our book!
Want to see the cover? Just scroll down.
Half PriceSomething you might want to know
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Jack the Ripper's KnifeDon's got it...
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Mary's Passed!London Walks has a new award-winning Blue Badge Guide! And the "back story" is a bit of all right as well.
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St. Pancras WalksGuided by an architectural historian!
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More Voicefrom Lance's Poetry in Performance walk
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www.londonwalks.comAre these the five best paragraphs ever written about London?
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IT'S HERE!Our book...
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Now Hear This!Sound, glorious sound - we've got sound!
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A Proposal!Go on one of Adam's walks...
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What The Papers Say..."the best insight into Jack the Ripper..."
The Star on The Star!
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Guide NewsDistinctions matter.
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The Cafein the Crypt at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the old church in Trafalgar Square, has re-opened!
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Quentin TarantinoAnd the Chinese Ambassador...
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Whoa!!!!"We'll give you access to places the public don't normally get to see."
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The Whale in the BathtubYes, this one's worth following up!
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Save MoneyGet an Oyster Card...
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Whoa!It only happens once a century!!
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London Walks ®Yes, you guessed right. That little symbol means exactly what you think it means. London Walks ® - our name - is now a registered trademark! Our registered trademark!!
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A Big House in a Big Woods on a Big Lake in Northern WisconsinThat's where your London Walks leaflet comes from in North American. But it gets even quirkier. I mean, how charming is this?
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Website Contributions Invited...Yes, let's get some of your fingerprints all over this website!
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Visit London - Best London Tour AwardAnd the winner is...
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What's New...A website about London and London Walks is necessarily a "work in progress". So here's a quick pointer to the latest additions to the site
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Donald's new Ripper bookIt's called Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard investigates...
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The two London Walks programmes - Winter & SummerIn case you're wondering...
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London Walks LeafletsHere are some places where you can always pick up a London Walks leaflet...
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THE BEATLES MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Lorna Moon - San Diego CA October 2007 i will be visiting the first part of November. Where can i buy a "2-zone travel card"? if i don't get this card, can i just pay for it, whatever the cost, that is, pay you? I plan to join you for this walk sometime between Nov 01 and Nov 06. thank you. i am an older Asian-american tourist, if you want to look for me.
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Hi Lana,
David here. It's usually better to just email us directly - at london@walks.com - with this sort of question. But since you put it up here and I'm here, well, I'll of course answer it. You can get a 2-Zone Travel Card at any London Underground station ("tube stop"). But you can't use them before 9.30 am. That restriction won't of course bear on your connecting up with Richard's Beatles Walk because doesn't start until much later in the morning. I.E., there'll be plenty of time for you to pop along to the tube stop closest to your hotel - go along after 9.30 am - get your Travel Card and off you go. Needless to say, I'm recommending that you get it prior to that initial tube ride that you'll make to get to the starting point for the Beatles Walk because you'll of course be able to use the Travel Card for that first journey - and then for every tube or bus ride that go on for the rest of the day. Bottom line: it'll save you quite a bit of money if you're planning on making several tube and/or bus journeys.
The other thing you could do - depending on how long you're staying in London and how much you plan to use public transportation - is get an Oyster Card. They're even better value than the 2-Zoner!
Make use of this medium - the internet - i.e., do some Googling (Oyster Card + Transport for London) etc. and you'll find full details about all the offers and "packages" and then you can just go from there. Pick the one that is the best "fit" for you.
Hope this helps. And, hey, if you happen to pitch up on one of the walks that I'm personally guiding - well, please introduce yourself!
Bestest, pip pip and tinkerty tonk,
David |
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