One of the jobs of a guide these days is to hand out audio machines – or to show people where they can be found. Some guides might resent this, thinking that we are doing ourselves out of a job by enabling our replacement by machines. Audioguides (or […]
Diary of a Tourist Guide:
Stonehenge
INDIANS AND COWBOYS
Gandhi statue, Parliament Square Like most tourist guides I adjust my commentary to the nature and nationality of the people in my group. The days when almost all your clients were Anglo-Saxon, Christian (at least nominally) and familiar with the major players in […]
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 […]