Post Christmas in London, with a -choccie- alternative to shopping in the sales!

This is what the Christmas Shoppers look like.. and January Sales are not much better...

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.

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!

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).

"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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