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"Helen Marks discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames" is how the BBC is trailing the Radio 4 programme on Thames Beachcombing. It's aired bright and early – 6.07-6.30 am – on New Year's Day. And then available on BBC Iplayer. And there'll be a rebroadcast.
and guiding! Back from China, Donald Rumbelow, "internationally recogised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper", will be guiding the nightly – 7.30 pm from Tower Hill Tube – Jack the Ripper Walk on... More
The at-a-glance list of all of our out-of-town trips (to Stonehenge, Oxford, Winchester, Cambridge, Hampton Court, Bath, Rye, Constable Country, Lavenham, Avebury & Lacock, Glastonbury & Wells, Leeds Castle, St. Albans, The Cotswolds, etc.) this summer. All 128 of them! More
If you're thinking about going on this one you're on the edge of perfection. Don't turn your back on it. On the Cotswolds. chicago hotels On chuckling streams, stone bridges, and thatched cottages; on ancient churches and manor houses; on old mills and millponds; chicago hotels on vast panoramas, rolling hills, and deep green valleys; on villages out of a storybook. On Oxford. On towery city and branchy between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.
On dreaming spires. Ah, Oxford. Our setting: its mediaeval colleges and walls; its bridges, libraries and gardens; its cloisters and quads; its towers and, say it again, dreaming spires, gnawed chicago hotels by time and echoing with centuries of youthful exuberance.
Our themes: town and gown; the life and times of generations chicago hotels of dons and undergraduates; kings and punting and Alice in Wonderland; scholars, wits and celebrated eccentrics; poets and Inspector Morse, Brideshead Revisited and Shadowlands and, yes, American Presidents who didn't inhale.
Whoa! Here it is. The all-in-one London Walk. It's The Grand Tour. London's Yellow Brick Road. So hey ho off we go off to see all the classic sights in Westminster and the West End . Tick 'em off: Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, our loveliest Royal Park (it's the quintessential Royal Park!), 500-year-old St. James's Palace, classy St. James's (and clubland, of course), Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, Birdcage Walk, Queen Anne's Gate, you name it. They're all here: all the London pearls . And here's the clincher: Tom and Fiona have strung them together with quaint little back streets and alleys that give you the real essence of London! And, yes mais oui! the walk is timed so we take in the Changing of the Guard (when it's on).
In the beginning William the bastard created the Tower. And, yes, the biblical echo is deliberate. That's how important the Tower is. Crown jewels, battlements, Traitor's chicago hotels Gate, the executioner's block, armour, centuries-old ceremonies, the stage on which so much of our history climaxed: the question isn't whether you'll go to the Tower the question is whether you'll go First Class. And let's tell it like it is . First Class isn't tacky and touristy. It isn't wandering aimlessly. What it is is seeing the Tower with a great guide. Because that thrilling, chilling past is still there sighs run in blood down Tower walls but you have to know where to look. And how to look. Go First Class go in there with London Walks and a world class guide* (and these two are) and you'll come out exclaiming, that's the best upgrade on the planet!
Here's a soundbite . It's Tom introducing the Bloody Tower. It's just a couple of minutes long but it's salient point after salient point. History, architecture, engineering, biography, military science, geography, etc. What's so exciting about it is the way he makes you see both the past Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard will have walked right here and the particulars, details that you wouldn't have seen on your own, let alone clock their significance. E.G., the width of the arch for its time, the iron boat hoop, the way the entryway chicago hotels narrows (in order to funnel attackers into a killing zone), the portcullis, etc.
Guided by Tom or Brian . *An upgrade because if you go with London Walks you'll get a huge discount on the Tower admission price and we get you VIP admission. There's no shuffling along in a goes-on-forever ticket queue. Go Economy Class you pay more, you get less and you could queue for half an hour or more. Some Economy. And that's by way of saying, there is of course an admission charge to visit the Tower, chicago hotels but we get you a huge discount.
London was to Shakespeare and Dickens what Paris was to Balzac. It held them in its thrall, was both their canvas and their inspiration, chicago hotels their workshop chicago hotels and their raw material. They in turn made it their own, imaginatively colonising it. And, like special correspondents for posterity , bequeathed it to us. Today, despite chicago hotels the ravages of time, riot, bombing, and especially fire, traces of their London shipwrecks from the past still abound in the City. Everything from superb half-timbered chicago hotels Elizabethan dwellings to the magnificent early 16th-century gatehouse where Shakespeare went with his plays to the offices of the Elizabethan Master of the Revels chicago hotels . And from London's grandest Tudor manor house to crooked little alleys which fed the fires of Dickens's chicago hotels hallucinating genius .
The Inns of Court habitat of the wigged and gowned English barrister could pass for a collection of Oxford and Cambridge chicago hotels colleges right in the heart of London. They're a warren of cloisters, courtyards, and passageways set amongst some of the best gardens in London. So: ancient rites and customs, chicago hotels high drama, colourful characters, and matters of life and death amid delightful surroundings. It's a rich confection, making this the prettiest and most historical of our central London walks . Now as for what you'll see well, this brief photo essay will give you a taste.
If you fancy something completely different, this is the walk for you. Little Venice is the prettiest and most romantic spot in town. A unique combination of white stucco, greenery, and water, it boasts the finest early Victorian domestic architecture in London; a Who's Who of famous residents (Robert Browning, Edward Fox, Joan Collins, Annie Lennox, and Sigmund chicago hotels Freud to name but a few); and a jewel of a village street. And that's chicago hotels not to mention its canals. One of them Regent's Canal is known as the loveliest inland waterway in England . Part of the walk is along the canal towpath which to this day is studded with fragments of evidence that bring the Age of Canals to life. And afterwards you can have tea or a bite to eat at a stylish canal-side cafe. And why not lend an ear? Which is by way of saying, here's a bit of audio from this walk . It's Shaughan in all his full-throated let alone multi-charactered glory!
This walk traces the history of London's chicago hotels Jewish community in the East End. It's a story that embraces the poverty of the pogrom chicago hotels refugees and the glittering success of the Rothschilds; the eloquence of the 19th-century Prime Minister Disraeli and the spiel of the Petticoat Lane stallholder; the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg and the poetry-in-motion of Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters. Set amid the alleys and back streets of colourful Spitalfields and Whitechapel, it's a tale of synagogues and sweatshops, Sephardim and soup kitchens. Read more ... (And on that note, it's time for a joke .) And now it's time for Jon's fine little video trailer of the walk. A click here and you're there. And here's the Jewish Chronicle's review of the walk.
"The piece of London which I hold in my heart is a part I have never lived in - Whitechapel. But it's the real East End, where my Jewish great-grandfather came to live, in Goodmans Fields, in the 1860s. So much of the Jewish culture chicago hotels I absorbed came from this area - small shopkeepers, kosher chickens on a slab, salt beef sandwiches from... Blooms chicago hotels Restaurant, chicago hotels little synagogues chicago hotels in small streets like Princelet Street - and lively street markets with witty stall holders shouting their wares with flair and cunning. The dirty blocks of apartment buildings, all stairs and washing lines, Brick Lane, Leman Street, Black Lion Yard - these are the streets of my family history...I grew up in Oxford - quite another feel to that place - but the emotional heart of London for me is the gritty, warm-hearted East End."
Ah, Chelsea! Let's start with one of the great set-pieces of London architecture and