Every Sunday we’ll pluck just one walk from the vast London Walks repertoire and put it centre
stage.
But if you only take one walking
tour this week, why not make it…
THE ALONG THE
THAMES PUB WALK
7 pm on Fridays from
Blackfriars Tube
There's no need
to book. A London Walk takes about two hours and costs £10 or £8 for concs.
Kids under 15 accompanied by their parent[s] go free.
"The most
exciting walk in London...it can do more to interpret the city than anything
else, a real skeleton key"
If you only have
time for one walking tour, this is the one to go on – it's the classic London
pub walk. It takes in London's last remaining galleried coaching inn, its best
riverside walkway, its oldest market, the most sensational art gallery in the
world (it's open on Friday night so when there's something spectacular in
there we hang a right and walk right through "the Turbine Hall" and
hey presto the Tate Modern's flagship exhibition becomes part of our route,
part of our itinerary!), the church where Harvard University's founder was
baptised, and an 18th-century pub that brews its own beer – plus lashings of
Shakespeare, a jot of Dickens, lots of pub lore, and London's best skyline
panorama.
It gets better.
Because there's also the recently discovered remains of Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre (and its sister playhouse The Rose)...and the thrilling, thatch-roofed
reproduction that's risen, Phoenix-like, only a stone's throw away. Let alone
the astonishing replica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde, the ship that the
great Elizabethan mariner sailed around the world over 400 years ago. Anchored
there in the murky Thames, its timbers creaking eerily in the misty London
night and The Globe just yards away...it's a ghost ship lost in time.
LISTEN: Katy reads from David's chapter on the Thames in the London Walks book London
Stories
The Along the
Thames Pub Walk takes place every Friday at 7 pm
Meet Katy or
David just outside Blackfriars Tube










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