What being private actually changes
- The pace is yours. Nobody is waiting for a group of twenty to reassemble.
- The route bends. Say you care about architecture, or food, or the war, and the guide weights the day that way.
- Questions get answered properly, because there are three of you asking and not thirty.
- You stop when you want to — for coffee, for a photograph, for the shade.
- Children set the tempo without anybody minding.
Honeymooners, families with young children, groups of friends and colleagues on a free afternoon are our four most common bookings. All four want the same thing: not to be herded.
Telling us what you want
You choose the shape of the day and our guides arrange the rest — the meeting point, the order of the sites, where to eat, which museum is closed on the day you picked. That planning is the part that eats a traveller's evening, and it is the part we take off you.
Useful things to put in the booking form: the ages of anyone under twelve, how far you are happy to walk, whether anyone in the group has trouble with heat or stairs, and one sentence about what you would most like to see.
What it costs
The guiding is free, on private walks as on every other. You cover entrance tickets, food, drinks and transport for yourself, and it is customary to cover your guide's share of the same. There is no deposit and no booking fee.