Walks with a theme
The “24 Hour Museum” has a whole page full of themed walks and trails around London. One for the amateur of industrial and urban landscapes is the Brunel Docklands trail, with riverside vistas, a trip through the first ever underwater tunnel, and a few museums thrown in. More nature-loving minds will be attracted to the historic gardens and museums trail, or perhaps a visit to the hilltops of South London with views over the metropolis.
If you’re tired of sticking to the central areas of London and want to get out of the centre a bit, the twelve trails can give you six whole weekends of fun discovering the outlying districts and the little known and often highly entertaining sights of the suburbs. A couple of them also have an audio tour / podcast thrown in if you want to take your mp3 player with you.
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Hi Andrea, I’ve been on a couple of these walking tours before and loved them (The Jack the Ripper tour is awesome and so was the Ghosts of the West End.) I wonder if there are any specific literary tours (eg. The Bloomsbury group a la Virginia Woolf etc) I know I’ll be staying right across the park from her home and I’ve been to a couple of pubs in the area where the writers hung out but I am curious to go on a guided walking tour of their old haunts.