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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dave Hill

Story of London: walk on by

The coming weekend is all about walking around bits of London, according to Boris's "festival" website. Thanks to Adam for alerting me to Diamond Geezer:

Many of these walks would have been happening anyway and have simply attached themselves to the Story of London festival to attract publicity. Some aren't walks at all, just tours of buildings. One of the free walks had a booking deadline last Friday, before any of the festival's (rather belated) publicity began, so you've already missed your chance Only 22 of the weekend's guided walks are free, the rest cost an average of £7 each (I shouldn't grumble, but I'm used to free festival events - which is clearly not the Boris way). And 24 of the walks listed aren't even taking place during the Walking Weekend at all, which is just sloppy website construction.

Oh dear. Now read on.

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