Cathedral to Cathedral Guided Walk

Cathedral to Cathedral Guided Walk: There's no other place like the south bank of the Thames to bring together the modern and the ancient as Old Father Thames slowly glides along - this tour squeezes it all in with a mentally stimulating yet relaxing walk. We'll see the magnificent St Paul's Cathedral, cross the river on what Londoners call the wobbly bridge (luckily it no longer wobbles) and see where Shakespeare's Globe once stood, where bears were baited, and we'll expose the scandals of the Winchester Geese. We visit an alehouse from where Pepys wrote about the Great Fire and the house where Wren lived to view his construction of St Paul's cathedral.

We'll talk you through the environmental factors that caused the river to become a sheet of ice and kept Londoners amused with their 'Frost Fairs'; we'll look at London's great battle with air pollution, from the orange haze of coal fires to the smog of the 1950s and find out how the battle was won. Then there's a 14th century Bishop's palace, Southwark Cathedral and its famous Harvard Chapel, and we'll walk over dark alley cobbles to the site of an old prison where inmates led terrible lives. For artists, the walk takes us past the Tate Modern Art Gallery and we visit the most famous bridge in town, London Bridge, and examine its rich history from Roman times.

To help you relax at the end of it all, you can put your feet up with a cheeky half, at a fine old English pub, the last example of one of the great galleried inns, where Dickens and Shakespeare drank.

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