Head to Foot Adventures on Foot: Launch of two new London Audio Walks.

Last week I finally recorded two new audio walks for London. These have been a rather long time in arriving. Works in progress for Vienna, Geneva and Kendal were put to one side for a while. London, the city where I grew up, turned into a labour of love. Weeks have been spent researching, buildings, history, facts and the fiction of the most fascinating and captivating city in the world.

Both walks begin at Trafalgar Square.
Corridors Of Power, covers Whitehall, Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
Processions, Palaces and Piccadilly, takes in the Mall, Buckingham Palace, St James's and Piccadilly.

Each recording lasts around an hour, they will take those following the tour as long as they wish.
The cost of each walk as a download is £6.00, both can be bought for £11.00
Each is packed with information researched from a number of sources. I want to use this post as an opportunity to give a name check to the books I have developed a relationship with over the last few months.

This relationship is not over as I am now well into a third wander, leaving to the East of Trafalgar Square, heading into Covent Garden, Seven Dials, Soho, Carnaby Street ending with a saunter down Regent Street.

Here in no particular order are those, now very well thumbed books. Along with links to them or at least those that I could find.

Discovering Off-Beat Walks in London John Wittich and Ron Phillips

Secret London Andrew Duncan

London's Strangest Tales Tom Quinn

Eccentric London Benedict Le Vay

Discovering London Street Names John Wittich

What's in a Name Cyril Harris

Favourite London Walks Andrew Duncan

London Theme Walks Frank Duerden

The London Compendium Ed Glinert

Secret London an Unusual Guide Rachel Howard and Bill Nas

Movie Locations Tony Reeves

I Never Knew That About London Christopher Winn

Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable Russ Willey

Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore

London Calling Barry Miles

Suggs and the City Suggs

There are others including a selection of very old books from The Carnforth Bookshop

The new walks are recorded in a large studio in Kendal, where I now live, under the ever watchful eye of Tim Riley. These two walks now have a non musical ambient background track.

The walks are currently being added to the website www.headtofoot.eu

To hear samples of the other tours click on the city name. Maastricht, Bruges and Antwerp