If you ask a Sydneysider about Balmain, they think of 3 things: the Balmain Tigers footy team, Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser and pubs. Lots of pubs. In fact, Balmain has the highest pub-to-person ratio in Australia. This 3-hour walking tour of this peninsula on Sydney Harbour covers Balmain's sordid history of escaped convicts,dodgy gangsters and corrupt politicians. In between weaving the backstreets, you'll stop for a drink of craft beer, wine or cider in 4 of the area's most iconic and oldest pubs. You can enjoy a choice of craft beer or wine in each pub that you visit!  Tour highlights include: 

• Balmain's Oldest Pub
• The Balmain Watch House, and stories of Balmain gangsters
• The Balmain Tigers' 'Team of the Penitentiary'
• Duelling colonists
• The murderous confectioner
• The hidden treasure of Australia's most audacious robbery- and many more tales of murder, vice and intrigue