Hampstead Village and the Heath - Private Tour

Welcome to London! My name is Elena - London adopted me 33 years ago and stole my heart. It will steal yours too! I moved to London from Italy in search of adventure - needless to say, I never went back. I have since made bustling Camden Town (site of the world-famous Camden Market) my permanent home. History has always been a passion of mine since I was a child, but my love for languages took me down a different professional path. I worked as an interpreter and translator for over 30 years, with some stints as a university lecturer, marketing rep and private tutor, but in 2019, after what I like to call my professional mid-life crisis, I rediscovered my love for history and qualified as a tour guide with the Camden Tour Guides Association (of which I am currently the Chairperson). My accreditation allows me to guide everywhere in London, including museums (but not inside St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London). I can't think of a better place to be a tour guide than London. Even after all these years, London is still an endless source of fascination, surprises, inspiration and wonder. You blink and some new building appears, changing the cityscape. You look up above street level and all of a sudden familiar buildings offer all sorts of unfamiliar sights. You get intentionally lost in some alleyway off a main street and tangible reminders of London's millenary history reveal themselves to you as if by magic. No other city in the world is as multifaceted as London. Every neighbourhood has its own distinct feel and character, from the trendy and very urban King's Cross to literary and leafy Bloomsbury, from colourful and chaotic Camden Town to idyllic and quaint Hampstead, where time has stood still in the cobbled alleys and century-old cottages. These might not be your classic tourist destinations (of course, Londoners want to keep these places all to themselves!), but if you are incurably curious, my tours are for you. Nothing gives me more pleasure than taking visitors off the beaten track and showing them another face of London beyond the crowds of the West End, the real London of Londoners. I am looking forward to bringing London stories, places and characters to life to make your experience a truly memorable one. Are you ready to discover another face of London with me? Guiding accreditation issued by Camden Tour Guides Association Chair of Camden Tour Guides Association Member of London Historians Member of Camden History Society Master's Degree in Translation Although I am an accredited guide, I am not a Blue Badge guide and I will not be able to guide you inside St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Tower of London. Walking tours only.