Westminster Welcome - Covent Garden to Parliament Square

New to London? Then this is the perfect tour to ‘welcome you to Westminster’

I will take you to the major landmarks in this historic borough, and don't worry - this tour is not just a list of names and dates you won’t remember two minute later! I have many interesting stories to make the history come alive.

Covent Garden  - Street performance and the best actor you have never heard of.

Trafalgar square - After we gaze up at Nelson we'll ask the 3 important questions - ’what's Nelson looking at'? 'What's wrong with those lions'? 'And what's George Washington standing on'?

Horse Guards - (on weekdays the 10:15 tour will catch the changing of the Kings Life Guard) The old Palace and a building that Churchill hated.

The Mall - Elizabeth’s red carpet.

St James Palace - A chat about leprosy and as we walk pass lancaster house we'll take a poll about who we think drank the government wine stored in the cellar during the Covid lockdown?

Buckingham palace - WW2 hits and misses.

St James park -  spy’s, pelicans and a mishap with fireworks.

Then to the best place for a photograph of the Houses of Parliament - my opinion ;-) before we get to…

Jewel Tower - how bureaucratic nonsense burned parliament.

Parliament square -  stories from the Abbey and the only gravestone that it is forbidden to step on.

A check of the time will reveal I have absolutely, definitely not ran over time (!) and I’ll wrap it up with the final story of how religious persecution almost led to the destruction of everything around us...