Tour Manager Notes: Wales

Overview The Principality of Wales is considered to be one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom, but has been ruled as one...

Tour Manager Notes: 18th Century Fashion

Overview When we talk of “The Fashionable” we mean the influential and the rich. But Bath was the great leveller of society. Here would be...

Tour Manager Notes: Canterbury

Overview The city of Canterbury, with its great cathedral, is the foremost ecclesiastical site in England and the spiritual capital of the Anglican/Episcopalian Church. Historically...

Tour Manager Notes: Geneva

Overview Geneva is a city of paradoxes: at once a world capital of diplomacy and human rights, a centre of finance and precision industry, and...

Tour Manager Notes: Nice, Eze and Monaco

The following notes are arranged to cover the normal route of the sightseeing tour starting from the station. City Tour from the Station On leaving...

Tour Manager Notes: Scotland

Key dates 1688 – James II deposed from the thrones of England and Scotland 1692 – Glencoe Massacre 1707 – Scotland and England united (Act...

Tour Manager Notes: Warwick

Overview The castle of Warwick, situated right in the Heart of England is one of the great strategic defensive sites in Britain. Its importance as...

Tour Manager Notes: Alps

The French Alps are renowned for majestic snow-capped peaks, fresh water cascades and torrents, rugged bare-faced rock, pine trees, vast green meadows and valleys, and...

Tour Manager Notes: Carcassonne

Overview Carcassonne is like something out of a picture book. It is the largest fortress in Europe and one of the very few remaining examples...

Tour Manager Notes: The German Reformation

Overview The Reformation in Germany was shaped by a unique combination of political fragmentation, local independence, humanist scholarship, emerging print technology, and the personal crisis...