This is what the Christmas Shoppers look like.. and January Sales are not much better...
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| CROWDS of shoppers |
So instead of shopping go on a
Chocolate walking tour, I did this a weekend in December with a friend run by 'unreal city audio'.
Its
full of entertainment and actors in costume add variety and
performance, mostly based on the history of the back streets of
Piccadilly.
Expect
to be taken down little alleyways and huge squares, while being
entralled by the music and the energy of this group, trust me, it's
fun, and even though it's loosely based on Chocolate, you get a little
cuppa of the hot stuff part way through included in the tour.
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| havent seen a triangle since school! |
It
details olde London life, and the main tour guide Matthew would know
while he talks to you with a spoon and a musical Triangle in his hand,
because he's done a PhD at Oxford and teaches on the subject, just not
keen to work in academia- and who can blame him, so he came up with
this!
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| Matthew explaining the James Palace behind us, and the oldest wine merchant across the street, and his painted white faced violinist by his side(right). |
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| "Mr Henry Jermyn" an actor on tour, presumably dead tired from Christmas Shopping/ Jan Sales |
Our
tour ran a little late, and upon asking the violinist who accompanies
the whole tour with lovely music distraction, when it would end, she
asked if I'd been there from the beginning before answering?!? I had been braving the cold like any of them... ah well, I
guess it is a street tour so they might get hanger-on's but the group is
very big- so perhaps she didn't notice my laughing and enjoying the performances... and thier little tipple of Chocolate isn't enough, Matthew gives you a little card to enable discount on all chocolate from Cocoa Hernando, including very interesting flavours such as Milk Chocolate with Masala Chai... yum...
They also run Chocolate and Coffee, and Ghosts of Fleet street walking tours:
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