Tour Manager Notes: Bordeaux

Overview The origins of Bordeaux date back to the 3rd century BC, when Celtic tribes established a settlement on the left bank of the Garonne...

Tour Manager Notes: Fontainebleau

Overview Your group should have walking tours for their inside visit which will have been distributed by their teachers. Their walking tour is not exactly...

Tour Manager Notes: Lucerne Walking Tour

Overview A legendary tradition going back to the time of St Benedict claims that a mysterious light was seen at night on the shores of...

Tour Manager Notes: Salisbury

Overview Sorbidiodonum was an important crossroad in Roman Britain, which became a prosperous market town in Saxon England. The Saxons called it Saeres Byrig, meaning...

Tour Manager Notes: Versailles

Key Dates 1638 – Louis XIV born 1661 – Fouquet’s party; Louis’ personal rule begins; Versailles started 1682 – Court moves to Versailles 1715 –...

Biarritz – Rocamadour and Reverse

53306SWE Biarritz, Rocamadour Routes Full day drive  Today you have a cross country drive on national roads.  Make  your rest stops in the towns and prepare the group...

Tour Manager Notes: Brighton

Overview Brighton, together with its neighbour Hove, is the largest town in Sussex, with a population of around 250,000. Before 1783 and the decisive arrival...

Tour Manager Notes: France

Key facts Size: 552 000km². Biggest country in Europe (excluding Russia). Almost twice the size of Nevada. 5500 km of frontiers. Population: 60.7 million (2001)....

Tour Manager Notes: Mantua

Overview Mantua, dominated by a ducal palace of immense size and splendor for the scale of the city, feels remote and slightly melancholy, isolated in...

Tour Manager Notes: Salzburg

Key Dates c. 1000 BC — Celtic settlements centred around Hallein (10 miles south of Salzburg) 696 AD — St. Rupert builds the abbey church...