Bloomsbury – Literary London & Liquid Refreshment

Holborn underground station, London (main exit, debouches onto Kingsway)

Guided by David

Walk Times

Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
28 December 2019 Pub 7.15 pm 9.15 pm Winter

Short read: The Literary London Pub Walk.

Long read: Welcome to London Walks’ Saturday evening literary  soirée! The company’s beyond compare: your good selves and the shades of Dickens and Thackeray; Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw; Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Circle (who lived in Squares and loved in triangles); Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; George Orwell, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. The venue’s a moveable feast: a procession of handsome Georgian squares; the humming little warren of streets in the Museum quarter; and a couple of the best old pubs in London. The host’s a born raconteur. And depend on it, he’ll stir things a bit – tell you a thing or two about the aforementioned – how they were flesh and blood men and women who lived, loved, laughed, caroused, quarrelled and spun “words so nimble, so full of subtle flame…”. (Food is available.) David requests the pleasure of your company…

THE LITERARY LONDON PUB WALK PRACTICALS

The Literary London Pub Walk takes place at 7.15 pm on Saturday, December 28.  The meeting point is HolbornTube.  N.B. the walk ends very near Russell SquareTube.

LONDON WALKS PRIVATE WALKS

If you can’t make one of the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, Bloomsbury – Literary London & Liquid Refreshment it can always be booked as a private tour. If you go private you can have the Bloomsbury – Literary London & Liquid Refreshment walk – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We’ll tailor it to your requirements. Ring Fiona or Mary on 020 7624 3978 or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up and make it happen for you. A private London Walk – they’re good value for an individual or couple and sensational value for a group – makes an ideal group or educational or birthday party or office (team-building) or club outing.

GIVE THE GIFT OF LONDON WALKS

A private London Walk makes a fab gift – be it a birthday or anniversary or Christmas present or whatever. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that’s special. Memories make us rich.

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