Summer 2010
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If you’re looking past April 23rd – if you’re looking for the Summer 2010 London Walks programme – well, stay put. You’re right where you need to be – you’re on the right page. In short, what follows is a “preview” of the Summer 2010 programme.

As always, the forthcoming (Summer 2010) London Walks programme won’t be all that different from our current (Winter 2009-2010) programme. We set a lot of store by that wise old saw: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So the London Walks programme doesn’t change very much from season to season. 90-95 percent of it stays the same. We just change it enough to freshen it, keep it bracingly alive and fizzing.  What I can tell you right now is 1) that from April 23 - St. George's Day, Shakespeare's birthday and Day One of the Summer 2010 London Walks programme - we'll be doing the Olympic London Walk - its proper title is Going for Gold in the East - See It Before 2012 - every Saturday afternoon at 2.15 pm. There's a review of the walk - and a photo or two - and a very good taster of a soundbite here; 2) in the Summer 2010 programme we'll be doing London on Film every Sunday morning. The exception that proves the rule is the 5th Sunday of the month - when there is a 5th Sunday. And 3) We'll probably be replacing the Thursday evening Marylebone Pub Walk with a Whitehall Pub Walk. And that should be it for the big ticket items - the weekly guided walking tours in London in the London Walks programme. Obviously the Tour du Jour walks and the Special Walks sections - both of which are, by definition, "date specific" - will be unique to their specific (Summer 2010) season.
 
So, yes, enough to keep it fresh but nothing in the way of sweeping, wholesale changes to the in-town programme!
 
The out-of-town programme - the Away We Go! Here's England!! Destination Days!!! - is a different story. In short, the big change from season to season is in the Explorer Days strand of our programme. "Explorer Days" is London Walks parlance for our out-of-town trips - to Stonehenge & Salisbury, Oxford & the Cotswolds, Bath, Cambridge, Richmond & Hampton Court, Avebury & Lacock, Constable Country, Warwick Castle, Blenheim Palace, Lavenham & Suffolk Village Country, etc. etc. The plain fact of the matter is we run a lot more out-of-town trips in the summer than we do in the winter.
 
Next summer (2010), for example, we'll be going to Stonehenge & Salisbury every Tuesday.
 
We'll be going to Oxford & the Cotswolds every Wednesday.
 
We'll be going to Bath every Thursday from June 10th through August 26th.
 
We'll be running special The Cotswolds in Mid-summer trips on June 6, June 20, July 11, July 25, August 8 and August 22.
 
And - as always - on various and sundry Mondays we'll be running Special Explorer Days. The Monday Special Explorer Days programme is still on the drawing board. Particulars will go up here as soon as it's finalised, so do check back here.
 
As for the biggest movable feast of them all - Here's England - Away We Go! The Saturday Explorer Days - well, most of them are already up on this website. Click here to see the particulars.
 
Anything else? Well, yes. As always, we'll be running the fortnightly Midsummer Canal Walks at 6.30 pm. The specifics will go up here very shortly.
 
And do stop back when you get a chance. Because I've got a few more bits and bos to add to this. And pretty special bits and bobs they are. You'll want to know about them.