Tempers can get a bit frayed in the heat. The tour guide should always keep cool but lots of long days and people complaining about this and that do not help. Here is a typical day, hour by hour: 6:00: The alarm goes off and I stumble […]
Diary of a Tourist Guide:
Golden Tours
A GOOD TIP
So, how’s it going on Golden Tours, Eddie? I received a call from them out of the blue last summer – when my tour managing time was obviously coming to an end – asking me to do a day job for them. It was a day trip to Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath, a day which I always considered […]
AMONGST THE STONES
I think every job I have done for Golden tours has taken me to Stonehenge – Stonehenge and Bath, and Windsor, and Oxford and Salisbury and any combination of those places. It is the one place everyone seems to wants to go to and I am quite happy to take them there. However, I rarely go up to […]
CHUCKING OUT TIME
When I started guiding many years ago a friend working for British Airways told me how ihis bosses always stressed how important it was to treat the passengers well so they would book again with the same airline, particularly if they were businesspeople. (They probably said ‘businessmen’ but these are less sexist times.) Our guide […]