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This drinks tour is a must-do when visiting London. Any good London travel guide will tell you that you just have to visit a good old pub when you have the chance. This guided tour will take you there as well as many more fantastic places. Find out more about the city’s history as you visit some of the best hidden gems in London.
Whether it be tea, coffee, gin or beer, Londoners have always been under the influence and these four drinks have helped shape our city as we know it today. Did you know that we drank coffee long before we drank tea? Learn how many of London's most famous organisations and institutions were founded in the city’s diverse coffee house scene (some were brothels, others science labs). Beer was endorsed by the government as cleaner than water and safer than spirits, leading to thousands of beer houses appearing in London. |
We visit some great examples of these classic pubs. Gin was the drink craze of 18th Century. We discuss London’s 1000 gin stills and the alarming impact they had. And finally, tea, the quintessentially British quencher! We have lost wars and chunks of our Empire over it, we have exchanged drugs for the precious leaves, locking them away as if they were gold - remember that when you next get out your teapot!
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What our guests are saying:
"Emma was an excellent guide and very informative. I know London quite well, but it is always great to find somewhere new. We were a small group of three couples, that made the whole experience more enjoyable. The tour should have been two and a half hours, which flew by and we were still enjoying our gin and tonics nearly three hours later. I would highly recommend this tour and will definitely be booking one of the other tours. Thank you Emma for a great afternoon" "We just had a fabulous walking tour with Emma-having booked it in the depths of lockdown, we hadn't even dared to think what it would be like. It turned out to be a perfect postlock down trip to the capital and we felt we had got an insider view of the City of London, Hatton Garden & Holborn in the company of a wise, witty and very knowledgeable friend. The other people on our trip were great fun too and we managed to dodge the downpours sitting in an atmospheric pub and a cool gin distillery where we drank Christopher Wren gin sitting amongst the gin stills. We are already planning our next trip with friends." |
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Private tours start from £270. Contact Emma for details and pricing for your group.
