Planning Your Tour
Like all great cities, London has a cornucopia of experiences to offer and the choice can be overwhelming. If this is your first visit, you might like to go for an introductory panoramic tour with me lasting the morning, or a full day’s highlights of London including panoramic tour and a visit to the Tower of London. Or you could just pick and choose from the menu below. If you’re a more regular visitor, perhaps look at the Off the Beaten Track list. I suggest no more than three for a good day’s activities.
Travelling between places can be accomplished by public transportation (tube and double decker bus) or taxi. If you wish to have a private chauffeur driven vehicle at your disposal, I can arrange this too.
International Itineraries
Now we’re talking a different kettle of fish.
If you, your family, your group of friends or colleagues, your school, your university, or your special interest group, wish to hire me privately to write, produce and run a European tour, then let’s chat…
My particular areas of expertise are in the countries of Western and Mediterranean Europe, as well as Ireland and the UK. Tours normally have a cultural, historical or gastronomic emphasis, as well as general interest for the first time visitor. I am well versed in leading multi-country itineraries as well as in-depth single country or city tours.
Please note I only work to order, there is no brochure. Any itinerary I write will be exclusive to you and your group.
London's Finest
Tower of London – 2 hours
Westminster Abbey – 90 mins
St. Paul’s Cathedral – 90 mins
British Museum – 90 mins
National Gallery – 90 mins
Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square walking tour – 90 mins
Westminster, Buckingham Palace and Changing of the Guard walking tour – 2 hours
Harry Potter walking / public transport tour – 2.5 hours
City of London walking tour – 2 hours
South Bank: London Eye to Borough Market walking tour – 2 hours
London Off the Beaten Track
The Foodie’s walking tour – 2 hours
Street Art walking tour – 2 hours
Dulwich Village and Dulwich Picture Gallery walking tour – 4 hours (including travel time)
Shakespeare’s London walking tour – 2 hours
London Literary walking tour – 2 hours
Theatre and Covent Garden walking tour – 2 hours
Spitalfield Market and the East End walking tour – 2 hours
Sir John Soane’s Museum and Inns of Court – 2 hours
Greenwich, Royal Observatory & Maritime Museum walking tour – 3 hours
London Evening Pub tour – 2 hours
Hampstead Village to Highgate Cemetery walking tour – 4 hours (including travel time)
Out of London Day Trips
Hampton Court – half or full day
Windsor Castle – half or full day
Stonehenge and Bath – full day
Bath – full day
Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare – full day
Canterbury and Dover Castle – full day
Oxford – full day
Cambridge – full day
The Cotswolds – full day
Oxford and Blenheim Palace – full day
Longer Out of London Tours
Paris – two to three days
Edinburgh – two to three days
Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands – three to five days
Florence and Tuscany – five days