I have never built up a network of relationships with private tour operators who offer what I call posh jobs: work with people who stay in smart hotels in Mayfair and have personal tours with private chauffeurs, ones which end […]
Diary of a Tourist Guide:
Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE IN WORDS AND PICTURES II
WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE LOOK LIKE? If we accept that Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him then it might be worth wondering what he looked like. There is a good deal of uncertainty on this and a lot of speculation. The Droeshot Engraving This is […]
SHAKESPEARE IN WORDS AND PICTURES (I)
I read a book on Shakespeare every year. We know very little about the man, which paradoxically only encourages the industry of Shakespeare writing as writers have free rein to imagine new versions of him and write about him in ways that are as creative as they are […]