Karen
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. [Interlude: you don’t need to take it from us or Travel & Leisure or Canadian television or the London Tourist Board – you can decide for yourself. Have a listen to this: It’s a Podcast Karen did on London’s oldest and most storied restaurant. Her visit there – her privileged access visit there – is one of the big stops on her Inside Story – Covent Garden Interiors Walk.] A reformed actress and occasional journalist, she was Independent Magazine’s Cultural Heritage Correspondent. Her gold standard walks are, needless to say, vivid and entertaining. So: “World’s greatest tour guide”, CBC star, Guide of the Year – no way she wasn’t going to front the flagship London Walks film!
See all of Karen's walks
The Old Palace Quarter
Friday, 07 October 2022 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"secret passageways that take you into the 16th-century"
Ghosts of the Old City
Saturday, 08 October 2022 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Spooktakular. "Best Ghost walk in the UK " - Essential travel
Darkest Victorian London
Monday, 10 October 2022 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Monday)
"Elsewhere is always surprising... " "history as a seance" "Victorian underside of modern London"
The Inns of Court
Monday, 10 October 2022 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"like a clutch of Oxbridge colleges in the heart of London"
A Village in Piccadilly
Monday, 10 October 2022 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
"elegant arcades, secret doorways and peekaboo views" "royal chocolates (we sample them, gratis)"
Old Westminster Walking Tour
Tuesday, 11 October 2022 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the cornerstone walk – miss it and you've missed London"
Past the Palace
Tuesday, 11 October 2022 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Tuesday)
"This one isn't on the balcony – it's through the keyhole. It's royal hideaways, boltholes, nooks and crannies..."
British Museum Tour
Wednesday, 12 October 2022 @ 2.15 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a 2-hour journey" Rumi
Inside Story – Covent Garden
Thursday, 13 October 2022 @ 10.15 am (This walk goes every Thursday)
Taking You Inside LONDON Gets you to places other people don't get to see.
Ghosts of the Old City on Halloween
Saturday, 29 October 2022 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
All the Ghosts come out for Halloween!