Joolz Guides' Quirky and Informative Walks Through the World's Greatest Capital City

Rather Splendid London Walks

Pip-pip and Tally-Ho... meet the most famous tour guide on YouTube, Joolz Guides! In Rather Splendid London Walks you can join Joolz himself on 20 fun-packed walks around the city, picking out the top sights, sounds and secret features that you wouldn&rsquo;t spot without an expert guide on hand. On your journey you will learn about London&#39;s finest palaces, historic houses and murky drinking dens, visiting unscrupulous politicians, literary figures, scientific heroes, notorious criminals, and stars of the stage and screen along the way. Highlighting historical features and oddities en route, including stink pipes, cattle troughs and parish boundary markers, Joolz has more tales, facts and anecdotes than you&#39;ve had hot dinners. From Pimlico to Peckham, Holland Park to Highgate, Southwark to Soho, Joolz Guides unveils the hidden gems and fantastic follies around every corner of the metropolis.

Julian McDonnell (a.k.a. &#39;Joolz&#39;) is an award-winning tourism film maker from London. He has lived there all his life and there&rsquo;s nothing he loves more than showing people around his beloved city... and talking!

Joolz Guides’ Amiable Ambles Underground and Overground

Rather Splendid London Tube Walks

Pip pip and tally ho! Joolz Guides is back, this time unveiling the hidden gems to be discovered on walks around, between, above and below London’s fascinating tube stations and railway lines. 
 
Overground, underground, ambling free! London’s iconic Underground system is a living, breathing map of this great city. In Rather Splendid London Tube Walks, our resident tour guide Joolz uncovers the curious histories and secret details to be found on a wander around stations – across the Underground, the Overground, the DLR and beyond – from architectural oddities and forgotten platforms to film locations, literary connections and the peculiar habits of London commuters. 
 
Packed with surprising facts and entertaining anecdotes, even lifelong Londoners will find something to fascinate them. Perfect for dipping into or taking with you on your own urban adventures, this is a celebration of the Underground and London in all its compelling and rather splendid glory.

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A Charming Trundle through London's Neighbourhoods via Its Fabulous Drinking Houses

Pip pip and Tally-Ho&hellip; Joolz is back! Joolz ends every YouTube tour with a pint in a pub, so who better to walk us around the must-visit watering holes and drinking dens of the capital than our trusty resident tour guide? 
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 Presenting 18 walks around popular and lesser-known parts of the metropolis, Rather Splendid London Pub Walks takes us on a leisurely weekend meander in search of a drink and a story. Each walk starts in a famous local, taking the scenic route from there to other popular pubs in the area. Whether it&rsquo;s a wander around Wapping or the regal environs of Greenwich, along the Thames from leafy Chiswick, visiting the old gin palaces of Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia or historic boozers in Mayfair and Westminster, London is packed with gorgeous old public houses that can tell a million weird, wild and wonderful stories. 
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 Illustrated throughout and with a map of each area to guide you, there are also special features and London insider knowledge, including pub paraphernalia and quizzes. Spend a happy day wandering then pull up a chair and settle down for a pint and a chinwag with Joolz. 
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