An Evening on the Naughty Ghost Walking Tour

I've proclaimed on this here blog many times that the best way to see somewhere is on foot, and that includes my own fair city of London. The Naughty Ghost Tour is half scary, half comical and focuses on the London Bridge area, starting in The Boot and Flogger pub where I caught up with AJ, Katy and Leanne and knocked back a few glasses of red wine to get us prepped for a walk in the cold.

Jack the Ripper Walking Tour

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I am a firm believer that walking around a city is the best way of getting to know your way around. Every city I visit, I make sure I don't just rely on public transport to get from A to B and you get to discover things you may never have seen too. I walk a lot in London, and it means I know a lot of back streets and short cuts which makes me feel much more at home, but the Jack the Ripper tour has put an end to that! You see, I live in east London, not far from the notorious serial killer's old stomping ground of Whitechapel, and having to walk home alone after this tour was not ideal.

The Tower of London

I've lived in London for nearly 2 years now, and I've done all of the free things the city has to offer, but I've not really done many of the paid tourist attractions.

My boyfriend lives 5 minutes walk from the Tower of London, and I take for granted that I walk past a worldwide famous building so often. We decided to actually become tourists in our own town, and take a trip into the Tower last weekend. 

The building is so iconic, and I got majorly snap happy, and loved the chirpy yeoman doing the tour.

The whole place is separated into a few different sections which are indoors (luckily as it was snowing and FREEZING). The armouries were beautiful and showed suits of armour from the Tudors onwards. The difference between Henry VIII when he was young to when he was 49 really highlighted how much he liked to indulge!

It sounds strange but I find it so weird to think that these things were actually used by real people. It's bizarre to think that something that somebody would use every day ends up behind strengthened glass and gawked at by millions of visitors every year. It's all so fascinating, and I particularly love seeing old books like the one below. It's so ornate and extravagant! 

Do you ever play tourist in your home town?