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Like to try an alternative entertainment to the theatre? Here's an entertaining and informative alternative for those wanting a bit more than the regular tourist attractions.
Away from regular tourist sites, down London's own back streets are ancient pubs, coaching inns, and riverside taverns that have survived 500 years of fire, flood, wartime Blitz, and the modern developer!
On this fully guided, four-hour tour, you'll go where Shakespeare and Dickens drank, where pirates and smugglers met, where highway men found their victims, where revolutionaries plotted, and where Royalty consorted. We'll show you Victorian 'Gin Palaces', haunted pubs, inns with prison cells beneath them, pubs where great literature was written, and even a pub built from the timbers of the Pilgrim Father's 'Mayflower' ship!
This is not a drinking tour but a tour through London's amazing social history, using historic pubs as our focal point. You hear a host of fascinating stories, including the history of beer in Britain. You'll also be learning the origin and meaning of many English words and phrases in daily use, like 'bringing someone down a peg or two', or why we get 'dead drunk'.
There's time to sample an ale or two, and to have traditional fish 'n 'chips (cost of drinks/food is not included in the tour price.)
This is a popular evening jaunt and participants regularly say 'this is the best thing I've done in London'.
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