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A quiet side street with a bicycle leaning under a lamppost, shutters and stone
4.2 km/h
walking · the only speed we offer

The city at walking speed.

Eight people. Two and a half hours. A paper map.No bus, no headset, no flag. A guide who lives on the route, a pace that lets you look up, and a stop every twenty minutes for the thing you'd have walked past.

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01 · Speed

What you notice at each speed.

12
things noticed · one street
By car40 km/h · the window, the traffic, the sat-nav
12things
By bike15 km/h · the road, the cobbles, the corners
40things
On foot4 km/h · the doorways, the smells, the cat
212things
By car: twelve.A shop sign, a bridge, the colour of the river, and nine things you can't remember. We counted, on the same street, with the same people. This is the honest number.
02 · The route

Seven stops. One afternoon.

The walk is drawn on paper and given to you at the start. It's yours to keep, and it's the map you'll use to go back to the one place you want to see again.

1
the meeting point · a bench by the fountain · 14:00
Fountain · 14:00Bakery · 14:20Courtyard · 14:45The steps · 15:10Market15:30The tailor · 15:55The river · 16:30
An old town street of painted houses, flower boxes, a tower at the end

Eight people. Then we stop.

Nine can't hear the guide without a microphone, and a microphone changes what people say. Eight can stand in a doorway. Eight can be let into a courtyard. Eight is the number the bakery will feed.

The walks

Three walks. Same speed.

Morning, afternoon, dusk. Each one is about five kilometres, which is two and a half hours at the speed we walk, with the stops. None of them goes anywhere a bus goes.

08:00 · Tuesday, Thursday, SaturdayThe market walkBakery, fish counter, the square filling up · 5 km

Start with coffee where the stallholders drink it. Ends with lunch, which is included, and which you'll have watched being bought.

£24 · lunch included
14:00 · Every dayThe back streetsCourtyards, steps, the tailor, the river · 5 km

The one on the map above. Seven stops, two of them into places with doors. The guide knows the person behind each one.

£24
18:30 · Friday, SaturdayThe river at duskBridges, the boatyard, one bar · 4 km

Starts in daylight, ends under lamps. Slower than the others, on purpose. The bar is the last stop and the first drink is ours.

£28 · first drink included
How

Five things we don't do.

Most city tours are built for the tour company. Ours are built for the pace. That rules a lot out.

01
No bus.Nothing worth seeing is further than five kilometres from anything else worth seeing. If it is, it's a different walk.
02
No headsets.Eight people can hear a person talking. If they can't, the group is too big or the street is too loud, and we move.
03
No script.The guide lives on the route. They'll tell you what changed this week. That isn't on a card.
04
No landmarks.You can find those. We go to the doorway three streets behind them, where the city is actually happening.
05
No app.A paper map, drawn for the walk, with the stops and the guide's phone number. Fold it into your pocket. Keep it.
Book

Book a walk.

Pick a walk and a day. Eight places on each; when they're gone, they're gone, and we'll tell you the next day with room. Meet at the bench by the fountain. You'll know the guide by the map.

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