Here are just a few reasons why I write The Daily Constitutional…
Too Much Information!
My walking tours take about two hours each. It’s very often the case that a walking tour is defined by what I leave out. There’s just TOO MUCH for two hours. I’ve honed my tours to peak condition over time, adding new information as it comes in and archiving other choice nuggets to make room for the new…
The remaining information often ends up here on my blog, The Daily Constitutional.
I Know A Lot Of Interesting People
My London tour guiding colleagues are a fascinating bunch. I’ll share their stories and news here on The Daily Constitutional from time to time.
Opinions Are Like…?
Do you really want to stand in the open air while someone opens their neck and blasts opinion in your face?
If so, then Hyde Park Corner is the place for you. Such shtick has no place on a walking tour.
A blog, however, is a different matter. Indeed, the internet can sometimes be nothing but a seething morass of opinion. In my opinion (!).
So from time to time I’ll share with you the odd opinion, here and there. For example…
The best chip shop in London (It’s Poppies in Old Compton Street)
The best park in London (It’s Crystal Palace)
The best museum in London (toss-up between The Cartoon Museum & The Grant Museum of Zoology & Comparative Anatomy)
By The Way…
Sometimes I have information that is very much relevant to the walking tour, but isn’t necessarily the stuff of great sightseeing.
Shoes, for example.
I think I know a thing-or-four about comfortable footwear. In my line of work it’s essential. Given that my brief as a tour guide is to lift my walkers’ heads up to see beyond the traffic and the shops, it would be a great pity to have them shoegazing for any part of our two hours together.
Which is why I blog about great walking shoes from time to time.
I Was Walking Along Just The Other Day, When…
The camera phone has turned us all into poets and chroniclers. And we tour guides, like everyone else, snap away as we go along. My blog gives us an opportunity to share the out-of-the-ordinary flotsam and jetsam of London. For example…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
I’m all about.
All over London.
I take notes and snap pictures. But London changes, almost constantly. And sometimes new bits of London appear fleetingly and then vanish.
Bits such as street art, or silly signs (see pic).
But they remain on my blog.
Similarly, I post historic shots to help fill-in the gaps in our modern London, such as this view of High Street Kensington…
All The News That’s Fit To Blog
I’ll keep you up to date with news, events and special offers from my friends at London Walks, Evan Evans Tours, Music Heritage London, The Westminster Guiding Course, the Westminster Guide Lecturers’ Association as well as my tour guiding colleagues and chums – new walks, new guides, special walks and events. I blog about all of that, as well as general London news and other London blogs that I enjoy and think you would, too.
And Now, The Soppy Bit…
Since 2005 you have joined my tours in rain or shine and you’ve always got stuff to say, kind words, insights, jokes, facts, theories, bits of your own life stories that, when imparted to me as a guide becomes part of my understanding of London as a whole.
And at the end of a walk we all just dissolve away and get back to our own, personal Londons The Daily Constitutional is my way of saying, “Keep in touch.”
So that’s why I blog.
Happy Londoning
Adam S.G
London
December 2021