Explore London through Iberian culture on this small-group tasting walking tour led by Florbela, a guide of Portuguese-Spanish heritage. Following the Thames, you’ll uncover stories of queens, sailors, migration, and trade, brought to life through tea, port, sherry, and Spanish tapas enjoyed along the way. This experience blends history, food, and lived perspective into a relaxed, inclusive walk designed for connection and conversation.

Tour Highlights

• Taste Iberian flavours in London, with included tea, wine, port, sherry, and Spanish tapas

• Walk the Thames with Flor, Iberian heritage storyteller, uncovering Spanish and Portuguese links to the city

• Visit historic riverside landmarks tied to trade, migration, and maritime life

• Learn how food and drink travelled with people, shaping everyday London habits

• Enjoy a small-group atmosphere, designed for discussion, reflection, and shared experience

At the Custom House, once at the heart of trade and migration, you’ll learn how goods arriving from Iberia shaped daily routines in Britain. Tea, wine, spices, and preserved foods quickly became part of ordinary life, and Florbela explains how these imports changed tastes and habits in ways we still recognise today.

You then step inside one of London’s oldest churches, long linked to sailors and travellers. Here, you’ll hear how Iberian seafarers prayed before their journeys, left offerings, and carried their beliefs across oceans. This is also where you pause for a tea tasting, using flavour to understand how a global trade product became such a deeply rooted British ritual.

Continuing on toward St Katharine Docks, the focus shifts to the working river. As you walk through former docklands and warehouses, Florbela explains how port and sherry found their way into London and why these wines travelled so well. Trade routes become tangible here, not just lines on a map, but tastes that endured.

The walk ends at a riverside venue, where you sit down together to enjoy Spanish tapas paired with port and sherry. Over food and wine, the stories come together, of migration, women’s voices, food as memory, and the quiet ways cultures leave their mark. There’s time to relax, ask questions, and enjoy the view before the tour ends, with recommendations for continuing your exploration nearby.