A Century of #London Walks – Well Done Marc!

London Walks guide and Daily Constitutional Associate Editor Richard III gives a BIG shout out to Marc Hodes (pictured above), the Long Distand London Walks Champion who has now completed more than 100 walking tours with London Walks & Paris Walks! Congratulations Marc!

Here's an email Marc sent to Richard…

Dear Richard,

My completed walks are listed below. Not bad for someone who has actually only been in residence here for one month – the rest were on weekend trips and the like from Ireland. 

I moved here for these seven months in no small part motivated by the fact I need to get more serious about getting these walks done. A bonus is my 10 month old son’s favourite toy is the London Walks pamphlet. Each one lasts about a week…

Best Wishes

Marc

London Walks

1. Old Westminster

2. Historic Greenwich

3. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour

4. The Old Jewish Quarter

5. The London Walk: St. Paul’s to the Tower of London 
6. Little Venice

7. Murder Most Foul

8. Bath (Explorer Day)

9. Stonehenge and Salisbury (Explorer Day)

10. Subterranean London

11. South Ken – Albertopolis, Alcazar and Alcoves

12. Old Kensington

13. Shakespeare’s and Dickens’ London

14. The Christmas Lights and Seasonal Cheer Pub Walk

15. The British Museum Walk

16. Notting Hill and Portobello Market

17. St. Albans (Explorer Day)

18. Avesbury and Lacock (Explorer Day)

19. The Regent’s Canal: Islington to Mile End

20. Old Hampstead Village

21. Old Marylebone

22. The London of Oscare Wilde

23. Spies and Spycathers London

24. Hampstead Village Pub Walk

25. The Famous Square Mile

26. Old Camden Town

27. Off the Beaten Track in St. Pancras Pub Walk

28. The Dark Side of Kensington

29. The Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk

30. Royal Richmond and Hampton Court (Explorer Day)

31. Chartwell and the Weald of Kent (Explorer Day)

32. Scandalous St. John’s Wood

33. Past Preserved - Nookes and Crannies in Charlie Chaplan's London

34. The London of the Rothchildes "The True Lords of Europe"

35. Reds, Radicals and Revolutionaries

36. Christmas Morning 1660 – Samuel Pepys’ London

37. The Christmas Day Charles Dickens’ London Walk

38. Soho in the Morning

39. Old Mayfair

40. Soho Unzipped Pub Walk

41. Cambridge: Can Such Places Be? (Explorer Day/Day Trip)

42. The Olympic Walk

43. Pie Crust to Upper Crust

44. All Change at St. Pancras

45. “Somewhere Else” London

46. Historic Wimbledon Village Winners & Wildcards, Sweetspots & Set

Points in SW19

47. The Iron Lady: Thatcher’s London

48. Clubs and Clubmen: The Gentlemen's Clubs 49. London's Literary Golden Mile

50. Jack the Ripper Haunts

51. Bond, James Bond: 007 & Ian Fleming’s London, The “shaken not stirred” Pub Walk

52. The London Tour: Westminster and the West End

53. Westminster at War

54. Lavenham and the Villages of Suffolk (Day Trip)

55. Brunel's Thames Tunnel: Mayflower, Riverside Village, Time Warp London

56. Victoria: Gateway to the Continent 

57. Victoria and Albert Museum Tour 

58. Rock ‘n’ Roll London

59. Doing the Lambeth Walk

60. Harry Potter on Location in London Town

61. Ancient London: Knights, Nuns and Notoriety

62. Pox and Penicillin: Medical Paddington Past and Present

63. Docklands: Cobblestones, Quaysides & Cloud-capped Towers 64. The “Somewhere Else” London Pub Walk

65. Bonny Barmy Balham: Gateway to the South

66. Rat’s Castle to Midtown: Sordid Past to Sort of Posh

67. Haunted London

68. The Secrets of Westminster Abbey

69. The Beatles In My Life Walk

70. The Tower of London Tour

71. The Unknown East End

72. A Village in Piccadilly

73. Old Westminster by Gaslight

74. Behind Closed Doors

75. The Hidden Pubs of Old London Town (2 times)

76. Legal and Illegal London: The Inns of Court

77. Chelsea: London’s Riverside Village

78. The Monopoly Walk: Advance to Mayfair

79. The Street Art Walk: Bombing with Banksy and Co. (Shoreditch, as opposed to Spitalfields, Version)

80. The Old Knightsbridge Village Pub Walk

81. George Orwell’s London: Big Brother is Watching You

82. The Along the Thames Pub Walk

83. The Great Melting Pot: Immigrants London

84. Old Highgate Village

85. Leighton House: Palace, Studio, East Meets West Treasure Cave

86. Meet the Anglo Saxons: The Sutton Hoo Gallery in the British Museum 87. Brunel’s London: Boat Trip, River Walk, Tunnel Descent...

88. What Ho, Jeeves! The London of P.G. Wodehouse

89. Elephant and Castle: The Regeneration Game

90. Frozen Music: The City of London Architecture Walk

91. Inside London’s Fashion Scene: Savile Row to Stell McCartney

92. Roaming by the River: The Thames is Liquid History

93. The City of Money and the Crash: How It Really Happened

94. Eccentric London: London is Stranger Than Fiction

95. Classic London Mews and Hidden Passageways

96. The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields: Riches to Rags

97. Backstairs Belgravia: Byways, Hidden Haunts and Classic Pubs

98. Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation! The Great Detective’s Westminster

99. The West End Ghost Walk

100. The National Gallery: The Best Art Tour Ever

101. The Greatest Multicultural City: Invaders and Immigrants, Exiles and Escapees

102. The Boat Race Sneak Peak: Blue Boys, Buoys, Bridges and Troubled Waters

103. Harry Potter Film Locations in the City

104. London’s Secret Village

105. Strand on the Green: “London’s Last Remaining True Village” 

106. Bohemia Fitzrovia: A Pub Walk in London’s Old Latin Quarter 

107. West Hampstead Village: The Other Hampstead

Paris Walks

1. The Marais Circuit I

2. The Marais Circuit II

3. The Village of Montmartre 4. The French Revolution

5. Old Les Halles Market

6. Occupation and Liberation 7. Institut de France

8. Jefferson’s Paris

9. Cite Island and Notre Dame

10. The Paris Chocolate Tour

11. Napoleon and Josephine at the Château of La Malmaison

12. The Paris Opera House

13. Montparnasse, the Val de Grace Convent and the Luxembourg Gardens 14. The Resistance, the Occupation, and the Vél d’Hiver

15. Underground Tour of the Sewers and the Story of the River Seine

16. Secrets of the Left Bank

17. Hemingway’s Paris

The Ed. adds: Phew! Well done Marc!





POST UPDATED 30/3/16

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