Some years ago I was bringing a group of well-educated girls from a private school in the USA back from Stratford and, held up by traffic, they started playing a game in which someone shouted out two alternatives and they […]
Diary of a Tourist Guide:
Archives for June 2018
THREE WARM WEEKS IN IRELAND
Just over a month ago I was invited back to extended touring by Trafalgar, who I used to work for full-time, and accepted a couple of tours to Ireland, where I had not been for two years. We had a great time (at least, I did) on both […]
KYLEMORE – THE GIVER AND THE GAMBLER
In England many country houses started off as abbeys before becoming homes for rich and aristocratic families. With Kylemore Abbey, however, it was the other way around. Built as a home by a wealthy Englishman Mitchell Henry it later came into the […]