GHOST walks, history tours, pub crawls, hen parties, buskers and bands, York city centre walks to many a different beat. Add another one this week with the third instalment of York Shakespeare Project's Sonnet Walks.

Previously mounted in 2014 and 2017, the hour-long walks return to coincide with Shakespeare's Rose Theatre being camped on a York car park all summer.

There could be many more summers of sonnets for YSP, given that Shakespeare penned 155 of them, and only another 11 are chalked off in the 2018 travels led by guides Mick Taylor at 6.15pm and Helen Wilson at 6.30pm.

Gathering on the York Theatre Royal terrace, Sonnet Walkers are urged to keep an eye out for the traffic at all times while learning snippets of York's history amid the city streets, parks and snickelways and encountering assorted characters with a background story to tell, each prompting a sudden burst into a sonnet.

Your reviewer has been asked not to give too much away as the element of surprise is a key part of the experience, not knowing who might pop up, or when or where, but love in myriad forms, art, fashion, a treasure-hunting vicar, an envelope, a purple dress, a yellow jacket, a tree by the Minster, an obsession with Sting and an Army veteran on his uppers all play their part.

Thank you to the diverse, engaging sonneteers, Nigel Evans, Bill Laverick, Emilie Knight, Nick Jones, Harry Revell, Shirley Williams, Di Starr, Marguerite Moss, Erin Wheeler, Frank Brogan and Sarah Jane-Strong, and please return next summer.

Sonnet Walks, York Shakespeare Project, York streets, until Saturday, 6.15pm and 6.30pm nightly. Box office: 01904 623568or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk