Booklover's Tour of London | Kings Cross - Bloomsbury - Charing Cross Road | Walks in London #6

Jean and I took a whistle-stop tour of London's independent bookshops! Click [CC] for subtitles
~*Open for the map of our walk and details of the places we visited*~
Map of our walk - drive.google.com/open?id=1vgV...
Jean's channel - / bookishthoughts
Take a look at this playlist if you'd like to join some previous walks - • Walks in London
~Featured Places~
The British Library - www.bl.uk
The Wellcome Collection - wellcomecollection.org/
Gay's The Word - / gaystheword
Learn more about Paud's Pins - paudspins.wordpress.com/
Persephone Books - www.persephonebooks.co.uk/
London Review Bookshop - www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/
Bookmarks - bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/
Forbidden Planet - forbiddenplanet.com
Foyles - www.foyles.co.uk
by CHLOE. - eatbychloe.com/
Any Amount of Books - www.anyamountofbooks.com/
Cecil Court - www.cecilcourt.co.uk/
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[@pancakeday4866]

This made me so happy. The rain, the music, the cozy book shops. Thank you!

[@GraemeBell9864]

AAH! A Scottish person in London. Bringing culture to the world! :)

[@digitaldannie7635]

My sister is a bookworm and for a class we were supposed to interview a person on where they wanted to go and we plan an interview for them. I was watching this with my sister and we were both happy. I hope she meets more bookworm friends and gets to have a day like this when she is older. Thanks for the video!

[@vlopezsalo]

I miss London so much! I've just discovered your channel through a recommendation and I already love it. Cheers!!!!!

[@Bathingape888]

been out of London for 20 years but this vid just made me want to go back. Spent many a weekend in those bookstores during my childhood

[@daysleeper1989]

Non of my friends are really into books, I wish I could have a day like that!!! Anyone from Glasgow who wants to start a buddy book tour around the city??

[@hilalahmed2335]

I'm from glasgow 🤘🤘

[@beanz6969]

@@hilalahmed2335 i wonder if you two actually met, that'll be so cool

[@AS-wy1po]

Angeline F Yeah.

[@julialeupoltcampos4221]

I can wait to visit London! Love all the bookstores!

[@paulwinchell6904]

Magnificent thank you oh to live somewhere where you can walk to bookstores. There were a couple of times I thought Jean was going bounce up and down and clap her hands in sheer delight and joy.

[@JeansThoughts]

I might have... aha.

[@Chelseachechechannel]

i miss london. wish i could go book shopping there right now ahhhh. lovely video!♡ ♡ ♡

[@LS-fg6vv]

If I ever get out of quarantine, I'm booking a flight to London and doing this!

[@pomme800]

me too!

[@ariannelg]

I absolutely loved this video!!! Want to do it as soon as possible :)

[@JeansThoughts]

Best day evaaa!

[@JeansThoughts]

@ersbgirl It's Kiko's plain red lipliner just all over my lips ^_^

[@Pierrerockzz]

I love the scarf with the stars on it, where is it from? Thank you so much!

[@inessamaria2428]

I was in London two weeks ago, and visited London Review Bookshop and ate a cake and drank a cup of tea. What a cosy and interesting bookshop. Loved it!

[@jess2424ica]

So glad I just found this. I was meant to visit London for the first time this month which couldn't end up happening. Need to recreate this walk when I finally get to visit!

[@Letprado]

This is the best vlog ever!! Showing London’s bookstores and a bit of a walk was an amazing idea!

[@SereniaSaissa]

Thanks for the wonderful book tour - despite the weather!!!

[@VictoriaPichel]

saying that i loved this video would be quite an understatement since, well... it even brought a few tears to my eyes. Been to all of those bookshops (ok, most of them, a 90%) and walked those streets and... I can't believe it. I miss London so much... Thank you girls. This was really lovely to watch.

[@neilsonsarify]

London just shot up to the top of my travel destination list solely because of the bookshops in this video! Thanks for sharing :)

[@andread.4217]

This was so inspiring. Thank you.

[@peculiaritea]

It is so incredibly dreary where I live today and this video just gives me the warmest, fuzziest feeling in the world! I visited Persephone Books and Gay's the Word for the first time earlier this year, all because of BookTube. I don't think I would have been aware of them otherwise. I bought Mariana, then found 5 more Persephone books in a charity shop in Hay-on-Wye when I visited later in the year. Such luck! I'm going to dive into one today, it's the perfect weather. Thank you for this video.

[@peculiaritea]

Also, the map is grrrrrrreat! Any time I've gone to multiple book shops in London I've struggled with the best route to walk.

[@barelygettinbyy]

I've only discovered your channel recently, and let me tell you, your content is therapeutic. Now i wish i could magically move to London and have one of these walks!

[@MaryAmongStories]

I went to London with a friend of mine this summer and we had such a lovely time exploring bookstores! this made me miss it even more ^^

[@resa_reads]

Ahhh, I was just rewatching this video for inspo and came across your comment! 🤎🌚

[@MaryAmongStories]

@@resa_reads aww 🥺🖤

[@randallwyrick6785]

I love when you do your walking tours. Unfortunately, I’ve not been to London so I really appreciate and enjoy them. Thanks to you two for sharing your day!

[@thelaurels13]

Would have liked it if you’d shown a bit more of Foyles. You didn’t visit Waterstones Piccadilly?

[@michellestratford9753]

What a wonderful video!! Thank you so much💗💜

[@KeepCalmwithBooksandCoffee]

Thank you for being a bright spot on my Sunday. It’s been a rough weekend and this was very lovely.

[@giselaperez6746]

Nice to have this bookshop tour with you two!🤗❤️❤️

[@attefsharaf6197]

You were right !

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Melmoth is book at bedtime this week. You two look like sisters. Loved this.

[@gillybean1234]

I live so close to kings cross and never know what the best route to go is! That's my weekend sorted! :)

[@exlibrisdabarai8773]

My favourite bookshops! Glad Any amount of books was mentioned.

[@lindacarson5429]

This is pretty much the bookshop tour I do every time I'm in London!! Loved seeing it. Think I must be due another trip soon!!

[@AndyKing1963]

I still remember when all of the books in Foyles were laid out by publisher - god it was a nightmare to find things ;) thanks for the video

[@karenrubins-lawrie103]

This is so cool. Going to recruit my book obsessed friend to join me in this or be brave and give it a whirl solo.

[@Aramsam-Sam]

I love your walks and this puts the cherry on the cake! Perfect for my next trip to London.

[@LaurenAndTheBooks]

Well this was a JOY. Did you love the Wellcome? I think it is one of my favourite places in London, I love the chance to have a sit and read in the reading rooms and they always have a good selection of magazines. You are both raincoat ambassadors looking so fantastic in the rain 💛💛💛

[@maryap8821]

What a wonderful video! Felt like I was with you visiting all the bookshops :) xxx

[@victoriahoyle-publichistor6986]

Ahhh all the familiar streets of Bloomsbury. I work at UCL and love to wander around there BUT I’ve never been to Gays the Word. How terrible is that?! I’m definitely going to visit there ASAP!

[@ohel95]

Huh, Soviet poster was unexpected :) Thank you, it was lovely!

[@jamesng8842]

well done

[@katerinak4164]

What a wonderful video ! Thank you !

[@DancethedrizzleBlogspot]

Oh girlies, this makes me miss London soooo muuuuch

[@kaylakiteley4742]

I've just moved to London so I cannot wait to go on this walk!

[@TussenDeBoeken]

Me and my mum do secondhand shop tours every now and then which is pretty cool to do! But I'm currently on a book buy ban because I have so many unread books at the moment haha

[@Marie11Miss]

Love this video! Thanks for all the suggestions on bookshops in London! I've only been to Foyles when I've visited so I'll definitely have to go to more when I'm next in London🙂

[@chiming_]

Love this series. Thank you. Also, Collaborate more with Jean.

[@LaurenWade]

Haha I feel like this is turning into a combined channel....there’ll be a feminist orchestra video together in 2 weeks 😂

[@monim4770]

thank you!! this reminds me sooooo much of my last visit to London, we did a very similar tour - in the sunshine, actually - and spontaneously went to see a play at the end of the day. Such a great day!! HOWEVER, I haven't yet read most of the books that I bought that day... shame on me... :-P

[@bookishshenanigans4769]

These are some of my favourite videos on your channel (especially if Jean is in them). So many great bookshops I still haven't visited, loved the specialist ones at the end.

[@LaurenWade]

I feel like my channel is just becoming a Jean fan account hahaha 😆 glad you enjoyed it! Xxx

[@andreadodson2817]

This was perfect, Thanks! Next year is a milestone birthday and I want to do just that... A bookshop tour of London.

[@YourTrueShelf]

This was such a lovely video! I wish I had a friend who is as bookish as me, with whom I could do something similar. Meanwhile, yay for booktube 😊

[@wicher89]

I’m so coming to London to do that tour ❤️💕

[@realkojitmal]

This sounds like you had a really lovely day! I've been to london 4 or 5 times now and haven't managed to visit any of these shops so I'll definitely keep them in mind for the next time!

[@DuluthTW]

Thank you so much for providing a map of your visits. I love these type of videos.

[@SpanishforKidsCB]

You missed Word on water at kings cross cannal. It's a library on a boat.

[@libraryofkayla]

It was so rainy and windy that day, my umbrella broke halfway through the day and I was soaked 😂 This looks like such a fun walk. I went to Foyles and Any Amount of Books as well but much later so they weren’t as busy. It was my first bookshop crawl and I loved it!

[@LaurenWade]

Haha dreadful day for a bookshop crawl! 🙈 glad you had a good time! Xx

[@tboygenius]

You guys are adorable!

[@KW-vy1rf]

Oh yay, I loved this! I'm heading to London soon and I intended to watch your older London walk videos to see what you got up to and get some ideas and then this popped up! With another favourite booktuber of mine. I love that you two are friends and that you do these. I'm definitely going to try to make it to Persephone Books and Foyle's while I'm there but I have to be careful as I have too many books already. Would you recommend By Chloe? It's so hard to narrow down food options in such a metropolis.

[@katiehalpern5791]

The only one I would add to this list is Daunt books! Love this video :)

[@LaurenWade]

I know, I LOVE Daunt! I was sad we didn’t get to visit, but it’s a little bit far away from the rest of these unfortunately xx

[@majemeryn]

Great day! Loved the video! I wish I could do such a book walk, but in my part of the U.S. we have mostly chain book shops, with a handful of small indie book shops. You'd need to drive quite a while from one to another. (No wonder so many people use Amazon.) Thankfully we have lots of libraries. 📚 Was excited to see you lunched at By Chloe? How was it?

[@jacobk1655]

How can you do a book tour of the Kings Cross area and not visit Skoob books?

[@AilsaVlogs]

I need to visit Gay Is The Word sometime, I've still not been.

[@JeansThoughts]

You do!

[@zinekatzines]

fab fab faaaaab!! 💖💖💖

[@jeffelfont6887]

Ah, you stopped to see my buddy Nigel at Any Amount.

[@kaberroneill94]

Looks like a great day! Can you tell me what is the guitar music you are using for your background? It is beautiful. Now I want to come to London and do this book tour (I'm from Boston, Massachusetts).

[@LaurenWade]

I’m sorry, it’s from epidemic sound where you can get copyright-free tracks for KZbin! I shall put a link in the description though x

[@sitifarhanafajrinadnan]

hello!!! ;)

[@khanafikhanafi9019]

Hello

[@witchplease77]

Hey guys, can you recommend some really phenomenal used bookstores in London?

[@carolconner9216]

Isn't SKOOB the largest used bookstore in London?