Free London walks and tours can be a bit of a conundrum. There are several organisations that offer free tours of London, but these are often led by students new to the capital who have simply learnt a script and who are dependent on hassling you for tips in order that they might make a living.

Whereas these can be fun, you never know for certain if the information you are hearing on these free London walks is actually accurate.

Also these tours can often be extremely crowded so that you lose the intimacy of discovering London’s hidden away and secret places, since you are vying with 50 or so other people to hear and see the guide.

Now there is an alternative in Free London walks.

In January 2009 Richard Jones, the founder of Discovery Walks and one of London’s most innovative and experienced guides, began offering free PDF’s of his London walks.

The first one to go live was the Harry Potter London Tour and since this has proved extremely popular we would like to announce that we are now launching a whole series of free walks around London.

The next PDF to become available will be the Riverside Pub walk that will introduce you to the streets and pubs of London’s 16th century sin city.

The advantage of this free London Pub walk over joining one of the scheduled London walks is that you will be able to do the pub tour at your own pace and in your own time.

Unlike the scheduled London walks that depart from a specific station at a set time you won’t be crammed on to a tour with 40 or 50 other people (think what a nightmare that can be when you get to the bar inside the pubs visited).

You won’t be dependent on when the guide says you are going to leave the pub, (imagine if you’ve just bought your drink and the guide announces it’s time to leave - how frustrating would that be!), and if you decide that a pub is worth spending a little extra time in then you’ll be able to dally at your leisure and leave when you want to.

Best of all these London Pub Walks are all part of our commitment to providing you with a choice. You can join us for one of our scheduled London walks or you can print off our detailed, well researched PDF Riverside Pub Walk and head off on your own in search of the wonders that London has to offer.

We hope to launch the new free Pubs Of London Walk in late July. Like our free Harry Potter London Tour you will be able to request it as an email attachment which you download, print off and do.

We’re very excited about these new free London walks and, judging by the feedback we have received, so too are the people who have done them.

So watch this space for that day in a few weeks time when we make the big announcement that the second of our Free London walks is live!