Every Sunday we’ll pluck just one walk from the vast London Walks repertoire and put it center stage.
You can check out the full schedule at www.walks.com
But if you only take one walking tour this week, why not make it…
In keeping with
this month's Literary London theme here on The DC…
LITERARY
BLOOMSBURY & THE OLD MUSEUM QUARTER
There's no need to book. A London Walk
takes about two hours and costs £9 or £7 for concs. Kids under 15 accompanied
by their parent[s] go free.
Tuesdays at
2:30p.m from Holborn Tube
What larks! What
plunges! Because this walk also explores "the other Bloomsbury" - the
Bloomsbury the tourists don't get to see. The problem - for them, not us - is
the sheer gravitational "pull" of the British Museum and Virginia
Woolf and co. "We take chairs and sit on our balcony after dinner...
Really Gordon Square, with the lamps lit and the light on the green is a
romantic place" (V. Woolf). And, sure, we'll "do" that quarter.
But we also "go" centrifugal - "do" undiscovered
Bloomsbury. And you'll be very glad we do because that marvelous old writ -
"London specialises in hiding the best of itself" - applies here in
spades. Okay, time for a taster. Amongst much else, we'll see London's tiniest
street, its most literary street (no, it's not in Virginia Woolf's Gordon
Square neighbourhood), a Sylvia Plath-Ted Hughes house, the "nodal
point" where the most important moment in the 20th century occurred,
London's most beautiful square, etc. - and trust me, it's a capacious,
cup-runneth-over "etc.". Bottom line: this is a very special walk!
Guided by Tom, Brian or Andy R.
A
London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.