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, 27 May 2022 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"secret passageways that take you into the 16th-century"
Ghosts of the Old City
Saturday, 28 May 2022 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Spooktakular. "Best Ghost walk in the UK " - Essential travel
Darkest Victorian London
Monday, 30 May 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, 30 May 2022 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"like a clutch of Oxbridge colleges in the heart of London"
A Village in Piccadilly
Monday, 30 May 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, 31 May 2022 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the cornerstone walk – miss it and you've missed London"
Past the Palace
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Tuesday)
NB: From August 4th - August 12th, Embankment Station will be closed. We still meet there. It is a short walk from Charing Cross Station "This one isn't on the balcony – it's through the keyhole. It's royal hideaways, boltholes, nooks and crannies..."
Inside Story – Covent Garden
Thursday, 02 June 2022 @ 10.15 am (This walk goes every Thursday)
Taking You Inside LONDON Gets you to places other people don't get to see.