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The Harry Potter Locations Tour

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Just a quick reminder that our Harry Potter London walks are available as a free pdf download.

We say walks plural because the tour is actually divided up into several different areas around London.

The Walks in Harry Potter’s London are free, albeit they are DIY tours.

 But, if you think about it, it makes perfect sense to do a Harry Potter tour on your own by following our carefully planned out step by step Walking Tour directions.

Firstly, you are not confined to a particular start time whereby you have to be at a specific point at a specified time. With our free Harry Potter London Tour you can start it at any time you wish.

Secondly, you’ll see more atcual Harry Potter film locations than with the paid for London walks. It is our belief that if you want to do a Harry Potter Walk of London then you want to actually see as many of the locations used in the films as possible.

To only take you to a small number of locations and then fill the rest of the tour is with topics and places that are not actually related to the Harry Potter film locations isn’t really fair on you.

Our Harry Potter London Tour and Treasure Hunt takes you to almost all the locations in London where the films have been shot.

Thirdly, we are great believers in step by step directions. We won’t tell you to go and sit in a pub or a cafe and read about interesting locations close by.

Our philosophy is to get you out there, actually walking through the streets of London enjoying the places you are reading about by actually being there.

Finally, the Harry Potter London Tour is also structured like a London treasure hunt, so the kids can be kept occupied throughout.

Best of all the whole thing is 100% free. You simply have to send an e-mail to:-

harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and, as if by magic, your Harry Potter London walk will be with you within moments.

Due to the exceptionally high demand for our tour we regret that you can only obtaain this one of our free London walks by sending your request to the aforementioned email address.

The Tour is a 30 page booklet that you then just print off and do as and when you choose. You set the pace, and can spend as much or as little time at the locations as you wish.

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Harry Potter Walks London.

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

We are going to take a break from our London walks of art and return to the theme of our great Free Harry Potter Tour of London.

We are currently receiving around 20 requests a day for our London walks Harry Potter Treasure Hunt and Walking Tour and are receiving some pretty good feedback from people who have taken it and have enjoyed it immensely.

The Harry Potter film locations walk was updated at the end of September, following the closure of the Thames Footpath between Blackfriars Bridge and The Founders Arms Pub.

This section of the London Riverside Walks is going to be closed for sometime, a few years at least, but the detour isn’t that bad and adds, at most an extra fifteen minutes walking onto the Harry Potter London Tour.

If you are not familiar with this great free London walk then it is a full tour of London that takes in the movie locations where the Harry Potter films are shot.

So, for example, we visit Diagon Alley, the Leaky Cauldron, Platform nine and three quarters, not to mention Gringotts bank and sundry other locations associated with the Harry Potter locations in London.

But the tour is also a fully paced out London Walking Tour that is structured to include a London Treasure Hunt so that parents with children can enjoy a memorable day out in London that won’t cost the earth.

To receive this memorable one of our London walks you simply have to send an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and, before you can say Hogwarts, the full downloadable pdf will be winging its way to you.

You simply then print it off (it runs to 30 pages) and then go off an explore Harry Potter’s London at your own pace and in your won time.

It’s as simple as that!

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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.

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Harry Potter London walks - They’re Free!

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Tomorrow, Sunday, why not enjoy a day exploring London on one of our free London walks.

Our Harry Potter Tour of London will take you on a magical journey all over London.

You’ll see many of the places that were used in the Harry Potter films, you’ll enjoy a wonderfully relaxing walk around London, and you’ll also be able to keep the kids occupied by our London Treasure Hunt that is incorporated into the Harry Potter London walks.

Getting hold of your free copy of the walk couldn’t be easier as the whole process is automated. Simply ping a quick email to

harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com

and, as if by magic, within around 40 seconds are wizards and goblins will spring into action, wave their wands and, lo and behold, the Harry Potter Tour pdf will arrive in your mail box.

The pdf is a 30 page booklet which you then print out and then you head off into central London and simply follow the step by step instructions.

We last checked the route on 8th September so its very up to date and it even features the locations from the latest film Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince.

We’ve had a great deal of interest shown in the Harry Potter London Tour since we launched it in May and many people who have taken it have emailed to say what a great time they had and thanking us for  putting this free resource out there.

We can only send it via the automated system as it takes us rather a long time to up load and send the PDF manually (three minutes to be precise).

So please don’t request the PDF via our contact form as we won’t be able to send it. Simply email us at harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and you’ll get the whole tour as a PDF by return.

We are currently compiling a few more London walks that can be sent by PDF for you to do at your own pace so be sure to return in a few weeks to see what else we have to offer.

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Our Harry Potter London walks

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

For those of you not familiar with the history of our unique London walks around the Harry Potter film locations here is a little background.

In 2007 Richard and Joanne Jones and their two sons, Thomas (10) and William (8)  decided to put together a London walk that would allow parents and children to explore all the Harry Potter film locations in London.

The tours then on offer were either very expensive or were London walks that weren’t really relevant to the Harry Potter theme.

What Richard and Joanne decided to do was to put together a tour of London that parents and children could do on their own and for free. They also decided that, to keep the children occupied, it might be an idea to include a London Treasure Hunt as part of the tour.

And thus was born the Harry Potter London Tour and Treasure Hunt. Beginning at Temple Underground Station they began pacing out a tour of London and visited all the harry Potter film location sites in London.

Gradually the tour came together and by December 2008 it was ready to go live on the internet. However, the problem with the website was that if parents wanted to print it off it ran to somewehere in the region of 90 or so cumbersome pages.

The whole ethos behind the Harry Potter London walks was that they were intended to offer a day out in London for families that wouldn’t cost parents the earth.

So in May 2009 the Harry Potter tour was turned into a dowlaodable PDF file that printed out at just 28 to 30 pages.

Joanne and Richard expected a handful of requests and so were had planned to simply email the pdf manually.

However, the Harry Potter London walking tour proved more popular than they imagined and they were soon having to manually upload and send over 100 pdf’s a day.

Casting round for a more labour efficient way to send the pdf they hit upon the idea of an automated response. Having tested this under all conditions they were delighted to find that it actually worked.

Not only did this mean that they didn’t have to spend two or so hours a day responding to the Harry Potter London tour requests, it also meant that those who requested the free London walks would not have to wait till Richard and Joanne were able to respond to receive the tour. Within minutes of them sending the request the pdf would be in their in box - as if by magic! It’s just a great one of the things to do in London.

So why not but this to the test yourself? Just send your request to

harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com

Then sit back and listen to the ping as it arrives. You then simply print it off and away you go exploring the streets of London on the first of a series of what, we hope, will be great London walks for families and anyone else interested in seeing more of London.

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Harry Potter London walk

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

The Harry Potter London walk is a free pdf that has been put together and compiled by London guide and writer Richard Jones.

The way the tour works is that we send you the London walks pdf which you then print off and follow its step by step directions on what is a truly in depth andunique London walking tour.

As well as taking you around the Harry Potter murder sites, the Harry Potter London tour is jam packed with fascinating snippets of information and historical facts.

For exampple, you will discover why London bridge is /was falling down. You will wander through some lovely old alleyways and tucked away courtyards to encounter the sites where many of the scenes in the Harry Potter films were shot.

You will explore the streets behind Whitehall, in one of a which a family following the tour route in June had the good fortune to encounter the filming  of the latest Harry Potter instalment.

But the tour is also laid out as a London treasure hunt which helps keep the kids occupied throughout the day, or days, over which you pace the tour.

Best of all we have recently automated the entire process of sending you this one of our free London walks.

To request you copy of the Harry Potter film location PDF simply send a request to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com  and within moments your Harry Potter London walk will be with you.

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