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Take a morning cycle ride in central London. Saddling up at our cycle hire centre at Gabriels Wharf located on the south side of the river in Waterloo. After choosing a bike, our experienced guide will escort you along the riverside, down side roads and alley ways though central London.

Key locations: London Eye, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, China Town and many more.

Duration: This tour lasts approximately 2.5 hours, booking is reccommended.

Price: £18.95 per person 

This a unique way to explore the real working, City of London. By joining a group tour, your experienced guide will be able to unravel theBreak: Yes layers of history that have built up by the side of the River Thames, over a period of two centuries.

Key locations: London Bridge and Borough Market, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Jack the Ripper place, The Docklands and many more.

Duration: This tour lasts approximately 3.5 hours, booking is reccommended.

Price: £21.95 per person 

This tour will take you west along the side of the River Thames, past the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall and then right under the big wheel, BA's London Eye.

Continuing under Westminster Bridge stopping for that Kodak moment, to admire the architecture of the Houses of Parliament. Still cycling along the side of the River Thames to Lambeth Palace, one of London's oldest buildings the home of the head of "The Church of England".

Now crossing to the north side of the river we explore the lanes of traditional red brick houses, though a back gate into Westminster Abbey School yard, the first school in England. Just outside the school you will be standing right on the place where so many Kings and Queens have had their coronation, only to end up in the crypt of the Abbey.

Across the road we join the green trail, though St. James's Park to Buckingham Palace up Constitution Hill into the open space of Hyde Park. In the park we stop for a break at the Royal Albert Memorial (the late husband of Queen Victoria) then to listen to the eccentric orators at Speakers Corner. (Sunday)

Back down the hill past Green Park, then down the Mall to Trafalgar Square, with Lord Nelson looking down on us, past the National Gallery, we then pedal through the back streets and alleyways of Covent Garden, theatre-land, home of the Royal Opera House, street theatre and much much more.

The trip is nearly over winding its way back to the river and crossing over Waterloo Bridge.

Key locations: London Eye, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park and many more.

Duration: This tour lasts approximately 3.5 hours, booking is reccommended.

Price: £21.95 per person 

www.londonbicycle.com - mail@londonbicycle.com - 0207928 6838

1a Gabriels Wharf, 56 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PP