Walk of the Week

NEW: Every Monday 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…
LITERARY BLOOMSBURY & THE OLD MUSEUM QUARTER
2.30 pm on Tuesdays 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 or Brian or Helena.   The Literary Bloomsbury & Old Museum Quarter Walk takes place every Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 pm.
Meet Tom (or Brian or Helena) just outside the exit of Holborn Tube.