Pub Walks
Don't know what a pub walk is? Just take a normal London Walk and mix in an extra half hour. (Or take two minutes and watch this little video trailer!) The extra half hour to allow for brief stops - 15-20 minutes or so - at a couple* of handsome old pubs enroute.
 
In short, you get the same two hours of "content" that you get on a normal London Walk. The extra half hour is "pub time".
 
They work a treat and then some. In short, they're absolutely brilliant! How good are they? Well, try this for size: The Along the Thames Pub Walk is (along with Old Hampstead Village) my (David's)  favourite London Walk of all! And considering that I'm personally able to guide 52 different London Walks, well, that's got to be some sort of recommendation!!
 
The pub stops are a good part of the reason a great pub walk is so special. Those two brief (some people would maybe say too brief!) pub stops enroute are a chance to take a break, sit down, socialise, etc. (A pub walk is a completely natural social situation, incidentally - there's nothing forced or in the least bit iffy about it.) People compare notes: "been to any shows? can you recommend a restaurant in that neighbourhood? what was the such-and-such exhibition like?" and so on. They're companionable, they're convivial, they're sociable, they're fun, they're informative. They're good news, whichever way you turn the prism and look through it.
 
Most nights - Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays - we do two different pub walks**. On Tuesday nights it's just the one (The Hidden Pubs of Old London Town). Monday nights is also a one-er - and that one, Old Westminster by Gaslight, is a sort of hybrid. By that I mean, it normally only takes in one pub - either enroute or as an optional port of call at walk's end. Optional because the main "thrust" of that walk at walk's end is a visit inside parliament. Inside parliament because Monday night "they" - the House of Commons and House of Lord's - normally sit very late, until ten o'clock or later - and so the walk is timed so that people can go into Parliament - go to the Strangers' Gallery - and watch some "democracy in action" in "the Mother of Parliaments" at walk's end.
 
*So if you're looking for a "crawl" - you know, sixteen pubs and getting smashed out of your head and therein's the whole story-end of story - well, you're barking up the wrong tree. Thatain't a London Walks pub walk. Our recipe - it bears repeating - is two pubs enroute. And then we end at a third pub.
 
On Sunday nights it's The Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk and The Sizzling Soho Pub Walk