We’re in the process of updating our free walking tours of London and its surroundings. Those of you who have been following our blog for some time will be familiar with our belief that we should offer you as many ways of seeing London as possible.

Our Walks of London website (www.walksoflondon.co.uk) has over the years proved a great resource for those of you who want to see more of London. We give you step by step directions that enable you to find parts of London that you would never dream existed.

But, in addition, we pack our free London walks with information about the historical figures and the places that you will encounter as you enjoy our tours.

We’re putting the finishing touches now to a free Riverside pub walk which will take you to some lovely old pubs that, literally, hang over the Thames! There will be all manner of fun things to do as you follow our detailed step by step instructions. That is important to us. We don’t think that we should tell you to go and sit in a pub and just read about the places that are nearby.

We tell you how to get to those places and then, when you are there, we tell you all about them.

How?

Well our free London walks are print off PDF’s that you download, print off and do when you want and at your own pace.

This is a much better way of doing Riverside London Pub Walks than joining a scheduled tour because you can spend as much time in the pubs as you want.

Think about this? If you explore London’s Historic pubs on regular London walks you will be arriving at the pub in a group that might number 50 or more people. If the walk lasts two to two and a half hours then that means you get an average of 20 minutes in each pub. It takes a barman round about a minute, a little longer for a pint of Guiness, to pull a pint. Then, he has to take the money, ring it up and give you your change. Even if those 50 people are in groups of 3, that’s 16 or so groups who are buying drinks.

Well, as they say in America, you do the math! Are you really going to enjoy the pub’s ambience when up against the clock like that? Suppose you want to eat at the pub? Do you honestly think 20 minutes is enough time to get a meal and eat it!

A London pub walk is best done in a small group at your own pace. So that is where our free London walks make the difference. You can spend as much or as little time in the pub as you choose.

Suppose, for example, it’s a Friday night and one of the Riverside pubs is bursting at the walls it’s so crammed with local office workers. If you were on a scheduled walk you’d have to battle to the bar, get a drink, finish it in the twenty minutes allocated for the stop and then continue to the next crowded pub. Would that really be fun?

With our free Walks you would turn up at the pub, see that it was crowded and so make the decision to move on to the next pub. And, because our London Walking Tours are about you having the choice, we will always offer suggestions for alternatives nearby. It’s a win win situation and that’s why on our walks you will always discover a welcome difference.