Here’s a lovely video by the National Trust featuring visitlondon.com favourite Omid Djalili’s favourite walk.

The actor and comedian is a fan of walking around Ham House and Gardens in Richmond, and from this gorgeous video, we can see why!

The video is part of the National Trust’s Walking Festival, running from 22 to 30 October. Find out more, and vote for your favourite walk at www.nationaltrust.co.uk/walkingfestival

Walking is one of the most popular ways to get around London. Check out our Guide to Walking around London

Laura Nolte shared this photo of the apple orchard at Fenton House with the Visit London Flickr group.

National Trust property Fenton House is a 17th century merchant’s house in Hampstead with a rose garden and lush orchard. The orchard has over 30 varieties of old English apples, and at the Fenton House Apple Weekend (24 – 25 September 2011) you’ll be able to sample some of them!

L’habitant shared this lovely photo of the Blewcoat School building in Westminster. The building is Grade I listed and is now used by the National Trust as their London gift shop.

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Laura Nolte shared this photo of the Garden House at Osterley Park near Twickenham.

Osterley Park belongs to the National Trust, and the Garden House sits in the pleasure gardens of Osterley House, a tudor home built in 1576 and transformed to impress by Robert Adam in the mid 1700s. Osterley House is lavishly furnished and the tapestry galleries are paticularly stunning.

If you’ve taken some stunning pictures of London recently, add them to the Visit London Flickr group and your photo could be selected as our next photo of the week.

London’s Buckingham Palace throws open its doors to the public each year for two months. Visitors get to take a rare peek inside one of the world’s few remaining working Royal Palaces.  And, this year, there’s a new exhibit of The Queen’s Year, which documents the numerous state occasions Her Majesty attends throughout the seasons.

We asked a few visitors to Buckingham Palace what they thought of the experience.

Buckingham Palace is something everyone should do at least once. I liked the enormous chandeliers best of all. They have a lovely café in the garden – it’s so nice to say that I had tea at Buckingham Palace! Jess, 29, Herne Hill

It’s funny, I always like seeing palaces and stately homes when I travel, but I’d never really thought about visiting one in my own town! I loved the opulence and the fact that all the  visitors had frocked up specially, just in case Her Maj caught a passing glance. The Sevres porcelain on display was stunning but my favourite bit was imagining the Royal family sitting around on the yellow-silk sofas in the White Drawing Room watching TV (well, maybe they do?!) and picturing the BFG in the garden. Brad, 46, Seven Sisters

I am so happy to have seen our Queen’s home. It was fascinating to hear about the Royal events that have taken place over the years and how it is one of a handful of working palaces. I am humbled by the number of events attended by the Queen after seeing the special The Queen’s Year exhibition in Buckingham Palace. I bought some of the royal chocolate from the gift shop as presents for my grandchildren. Shirley, 62, Forest Gate

As a first time palace-goer, I felt really fortunate to be able to snoop around the Queen’s house. Even though it’s a fairly compact tour, being able to see the rooms and  garden is really special. Steeped in so much history and ceremony the rooms I found the most interesting were the art gallery – who knew the Queen had a Rubens in her house? And also this year’s exhibition which had some wonderful little artefacts and mementos from her trips and appointments around the world. The highlight for me was the grand staircase, which was truly breathtaking (so much gold)! In my mind, I was in a full ball gown, being announced as I entered the room with a handsome Prince at my side.  Jo, 27, Battersea

It was good to see inside Buckingham Palace – somewhere I’ve only seen from afar until now. Using the audio guide, you can whip round in an hour, or press for extra information if there are bits you want to know more about. The gardens were impressive – we didn’t get to go very far into them, but you can walk around the edge on your way out. Sophie, 22, Tooting

As the home of royalty, Buckingham Palace is a must-do for anyone visiting London! It’s all very splendid and grandiose on a large scale with amazing art collection from Rembrandt and at least one uber-rare Vermeer. Go and see the home of Royalty, you’d be silly not to. Angela, 38, Highgate

Get your tickets to this year’s Buckingham Palace Summer Opening