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Free Walks In London.

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

You’ve probably noticed as you read the snippets of information on our blogs, or as you look at the selection of London walks that we offer, that we have a whole selection of walks that are free.

Most popular of these is our fantastic Harry Potter London Tour, which is a download PDF that you can then print off and follow the step by step instructions at you own pace.

In addition to this, we are in the process of adding the finishing touches to our London Pub Walk, and we will soon be adding a great new family walk that will follow the same format as our Harry Potter Tour in that it will be a London Treasure Hunt and London Walking Tour, but which will be a City Safari.

We have also started work on a new video which we hope will go live soon and which will introduce you to one of London’s most poignant monuments.

Our paid regular tours are still going strong and our Jack the Ripper Tour is still selling out every night.

Richard’s Haunted London walks that take place on Friday and Saturday nights are back in full throttle now that the night’s are, once again, getting dark.

We will shortly be introducing you to our great Blue Badge Guides who have now started to join Richard to lead some of the London Walking Tours through the streets of the old City.

In addition they will be offering a series of new tours that are shaping up to be really exciting.

On the Jack the Ripper Walk front we’ll be making an exciting announcement later this month. But we’ve also managed to negotiate a special discount for our walkers on copies of  Richard’s acclaimed book Uncovering Jack the Ripper’s London and we’ll roll out details of that offer later this week.

The Australian Band Spiral Dance have approached Richard about putting one of his poems to music and releasing it on their next album, whilst a group of students in Texas have added  a spooky soundtrack to another of Richard’s Poems and recorded it for Halloween.

Details of  both of these will be posted here soon.

In addition Richard has spent the summer working with one of Britain’s most respected actors on a project to do with London that will be coming together in the next few months.

So all in all, things are really busy for us and our London walks are forging ahead to give you more of London.

So keep on coming back to read our blogs and to enjoy the many snippets of information we post on our Walking Tours of London site.

The Harry Potter Tour of London

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

We are the only London walks company to offer a free Harry Potter Tour of London. Some great things have happened to people who have requested our Harry Potter PDF. One family were following the route when they suddenly encountered the filming for the next Harry Potter film - how cool is that! They even saw Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint on set.

Our tour has proved hugely popular and we have now sent out almost 5,000 downloads of the tour.

Until very recently our Harry Potter London walks were manually uploaded per request. Since the PDF itself runs to over 30 pages it was getting to the stage where it was taking nearly three hours a day just to send out the PDF’s in reply to the requests for our London walks.

We have been champing at the bit to get on with our new free London walks the Riverside London Pub Tour and spending so much time a week sending out the Harry Potter Tour meant we couldn’t give the time required to ensure that the free  London Pub Walk was up to the standard our clients have come to expect.

And then, as if by magic, we found the solution! We automated the entire process. Now to request a copy of our Harry Potter London Tour you just have to send us an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and lo and behold within about a minute the entire 30 page PDF booklet will suddenly land in your in box.

This is great for us as we can now forge ahead with our free London walks (all of which will be likewise automated), it’s great for you because you will no longer have to wait for us to answer your email, the whole process works within minutes and is fully automated.

So why not put our new system to the test? Simply ping us an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and the world famous Harry Potter London walk will be with you in no time.

Once you get the pdf you simply open the file, print it off and off you go. We have also started testing it on the Blackberry hand-held and, although the download takes a little longer, it works like magic.

So now you don’t even need to print off our London walks you can download them to a Blackberry (we haven’t actually tested it on other mobiles yet so we can’t say for certain if you can download our London walks harry Potter Tour onto other handsets) and you can follow it on your screen.

Keep an eye out for other London walks that will be going live soon and we’re even hard at work putting together a bus tour of London that you will be able to do yourself for nothing more than the cost of a Travel Card or an Oyster card. More info will follow soon.

But for now send us the email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and see for yourself how we’re about to open up the London Walking Tour scene for free to everybody.