IABTours

26/06/2021

Two live virtual tours tomorrow:
3pm Oxford "Down The Rabbit Hole and Through the Wardrobe" - a wander around some of the city's most iconic locations, focusing on the many links to famous fantasy literature - Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Philip Pullman....
7pm The Golden Cotswolds - Broadway - A Sunday evening stroll around a quintessentially English town, guaranteed to bring your weekend to an enjoyable and relaxing conclusion.

Sign up for these and all my upcoming tours at heygo.com/ian

Hello and thanks for visiting. I’m Ian, a professionally qualified guide. I hold the Blue Badge, which is the UK’s highest tour guiding qualification and have many years’ experience guiding in both English and German. My passion is sharing places and stories with people from around the world, ...

25/06/2021

I always love doing tours in Oxford and this is a tour I particularly enjoy. We're exploring the city's links to some of our best known fantasy writers and stories - Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Philip Pullman and even a bit of Harry Potter magic too!

Join me live on Sunday at 3pm BST!

https://www.heygo.com/tours/down-rabbit-hole-through-wardrobe

Wonderland, Hogwarts, Middle Earth, Narnia and more - discover Oxford's links to some of our best loved stories as we take you to the places where their creators lived, worked and got their inspiration. Along the way, you will learn much more about this fascinating place, see the two largest Oxford....

24/06/2021

Brand new live streamed virtual tour now available!
Join me on 3rd July at 3pm BST to discover all the elements of a traditional English seaside holiday.
https://www.heygo.com/tours/birmingham-on-sea

Seaside holidays are as English as afternoon tea and "interesting" weather! On this tour, we follow in the footsteps of generations of working class Birmingham people by taking a trip to the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare in North Somerset, the most popular holiday destination for the city's resi...

21/06/2021

Good morning! It's going to be another day of exciting virtual tours today with two more live streamed adventures for you.
At 3pm BST I'll be in Stratford for a delightful stroll taking in "800 Years Along the Avon", then at 6.30pm BST you can join me for a fascinating glimpse of social history with "Death, Burial and Mourning in Victorian Birmingham". Two very different but popular and interesting tours.
Also, I just added tours for next Sunday (27th June).
There's another chance to join "Oxford - Down The Rabbit Hole and Through the Wardrobe" at 3pm BST and then an early evening meander in the beautiful Cotswold town of Broadway at 7pm.
Full details of all tours on my page at heygo.com/ian. Sign up now and I look forward to welcoming you!

Hello and thanks for visiting. I’m Ian, a professionally qualified guide. I hold the Blue Badge, which is the UK’s highest tour guiding qualification and have many years’ experience guiding in both English and German. My passion is sharing places and stories with people from around the world, ...

17/06/2021

My first recorded virtual tour for Free Tours By Foot is now online! Check it out:

In today's video, we take a day trip from London to one of England's most important cities. This video is an Oxford walking tour, home to the oldest universi...

05/06/2021

One of my personal favourite live-streamed virtual tours tomorrow - at 5pm BST I will be in Oxford for "In The Footsteps of Giants", exploring some of the city's less famous spots and the places where great people did great things.

https://www.heygo.com/tours/oxford-in-the-footsteps-of-giants

On this tour, we leave behind the iconic sights of the city centre to explore more of this ancient university city, on the trail of some of the most famous people to have studied, lived and worked here. Let me introduce you to great names from the worlds of politics, religion, science, literature an...

04/06/2021

My next live streamed virtual tour is on Sunday and it's another German tour, this time in Oxford.
Join me at 3pm BST to discover England's oldest university city.

https://www.heygo.com/channels/tour-instances/22938

25/05/2021

Two live streamed virtual tours now added for Sunday 30th May.
I'll be in my home town Nottingham for my Queen of the Midlands tour at 2pm BST - a great introduction to a fascinating and very attractive city.
And very excited to announce my new tour in Birmingham, which will be at 6pm BST. It's called "Death, Burial and Mourning in Victorian Birmingham" and will be a tour of our two 19th Century catacomb cemeteries. It's not a ghost tour, it's all about the social history of how death was viewed and commemorated in Victorian times and the traditions that have survived or been lost. We'll also visit the resting places of some prominent Birmingham citizens along the way. I've really been looking forward to getting this one on the calendar so I hope you will join me!

Check out these and all my tours at heygo.com/ian

Hello and thanks for visiting. I’m Ian, a professionally qualified guide. I hold the Blue Badge, which is the UK’s highest tour guiding qualification and have many years’ experience guiding in both English and German. My passion is sharing places and stories with people from around the world, ...

24/05/2021

Good morning!
Another two live streamed virtual tours today.
At 2pm BST is "A City Reinvented", all about Birmingham's constantly changing face and especially the regeneration of the past 30 years. If you've never visited England's second city, this is a great introduction.
Then at 5pm BST it's a TOUR PREMIERE - Lichfield, Small But Perfectly Formed. Time to explore the historic sights of Lichfield including fantastic views of its magnificent Gothic cathedral.
Sign up for these and all my tours at

23/05/2021

Two virtual tours in Stratford Upon Avon for you today!
At 3pm BST it's my first German language tour for Heygo, which is my Stratford town centre tour.
Then at 5pm BST it's my 800 Years Along The Avon tour, which is in English!
Sign up to both and check out all upcoming tours on my channel page at heygo.com/ian.

Hello and thanks for visiting. I’m Ian, a professionally qualified guide. I hold the Blue Badge, which is the UK’s highest tour guiding qualification and have many years’ experience guiding in both English and German. My passion is sharing places and stories with people from around the world, ...

19/05/2021

Good morning!
I have two quite different live streamed tours for you today over at Heygo.
At 4pm BST I will be in Bournville, a suburb of Birmingham with the atmosphere and look of an English village, created by the Cadbury family as a home for their chocolate factory. You eat the chocolate, I'll walk off the calories!
Then at 7pm it is an in-depth stroll through key parts of English history, as we walk around the walls of Kenilworth Castle and learn about stories and characters from the past 900 years. If you like history, this is the tour for you!
https://www.heygo.com/.../bournville-village-built-on...
https://www.heygo.com/.../kenilworth-castle-fortress...

See, discover and learn through the eyes of a local. Join a live-streamed tour today.

16/05/2021

Delighted to have been asked to be part of a trial of foreign language tours on the Heygo platform and just scheduled my first two tours.
Stratford Upon Avon on Sunday 23rd May at 3pm BST and Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds on Thursday 27th May at 3pm BST.
Both can be booked and viewed over at heygo.com
Please share this if you have any German speaking friends, colleagues, students people in your network! Would be great if we can make this trial a success and make other languages a permanent part of the platform.

01/03/2021

Calling everyone who is missing travel, bored of lockdown or just keen to discover more of the world!
Why not join me on www.virtualtrips.io, a great interactive platform and growing community offering live-streamed tours with local guides in over 100 destinations worldwide?
My tours are in the Heart of England - so far Birmingham, Stratford, Warwick, Oxford, Cotswolds and Nottingham, with more to follow!
All tours are free to join, with the platform and guides supported by tips from people who enjoy the experiences we are providing.
Check it out and I look forward to seeing you on a tour very soon!

See, discover and learn through the eyes of a local. Join a live-streamed tour today.

31/01/2021

Two days left to get your tickets for our first virtual Zoom tour on Tuesday. It's a must for any Tolkien fans or anyone who wants to see some different places in and around Birmingham.

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/511188

Keep on exploring while staying safe at home during Covid-19 with our series of virtual tours. Join us to discover the locations in Birmingham where the young Tolkien lived, played and grew up, and how the city and the area around it influenced his education, thinking and his later writing. Along th...

23/01/2021

We now have a series of five themed Zoom tours available for booking. Check them out and get your places at https://www.wegottickets.com/iabtours.
Even if they are not your thing, please share if you can. Thank you.

16/01/2021

Travel from your armchair with IAB Tours - new virtual tours now on sale.
We are planning to do a series of our favourite themed tours as Zoom events in the coming weeks and months. The first two are on sale now.
We look forward to seeing you there!

https://www.wegottickets.com/iabtours

14/01/2021

More tours are now available to book on Virtual Trips.
We have two different ones in Birmingham, two different ones in Stratford, also Warwick and the Cotswolds.
Just sign up on the platform and I'll see you there!
If you enjoy checking out somewhere new, especially while you're at home in lockdown, you will love Virtual Trips.

See, discover and learn through the eyes of a local. Join a live-streamed tour today.

08/01/2021

Excited to be part of the Virtual Trips guiding community. My first live streamed virtual tours in Birmingham are now available for booking - check out https://www.virtualtrips.io/tours/victoria-square-centre for details. Please share, support and I hope to see some old friends on the tours.

Discover a city of contrasts that has evolved continuously over the years. On this tour we explore the historic centre of the city, with its impressive architecture reflecting Birmingham's position as one of the world's most prosperous cities in the 19th Century. Packed with stories about how the ci...

19/05/2018

A week ago I was enjoying the fascinating city of Edinburgh. It's a place that will feature on my Harry Potter Tour in July, including George Heriot's school, J.K. Rowling's inspiration for Hogwarts.

04/04/2017

On last month's Ghost Walk, we were accompanied by Guled Eid, who is writing a dissertation about ghost walks and other "dark tourism". Hoping that some of our clients, friends and supporters will be able to take a few minutes to help Guled in his research by completing a short online questionnaire.

If you've been on a ghost walk (ours or somewhere else) or attended a similar event, the link to use is:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RHPZBMH

If you've not been on a tour yet, the link is:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SRH9JDW

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

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13/06/2016

Another excellent Peaky Blinders tour in Birmingham last night. Exploring social history, Birmingham gangs and the real events and people behind the TV show. And I took a couple of bodyguards along with me.

15/05/2016

Hotel next to Wembley Stadium where I'm staying on my own tonight and also tomorrow with my group for the first night of my Harry Potter film locations tour. Looking forward to it.

14/03/2016

18/01/2016

Contrasting tours this week. On Saturday I was showing a group of journalists from the UAE around Birmingham - they are writing articles about the city to coincide with a new direct air route between Birmingham and Qatar. Today and tomorrow I'm doing tours of the city centre and suburbs for BBC staff who are relocating here.

05/10/2015

Had some really dedicated fans on my Peaky Blinders tour in Birmingham last night. Looked like they'd walked right off the set of the new series. As always I enjoyed helping people discover some of our city's social history.

17/08/2015

Although it sounds like a basement jazz club in the backstreets of New York, Foxy Brown's is actually an excellent coffee shop and cafe in the Cotswolds. It's in the popular village of Broadway, and is highly recommended whether you're looking for a quick drink, lunch or a sweet treat. If you're looking for a quaint tea room in one of the ancient golden-coloured stone cottages of the village High Street, Foxy Brown's is not the place for you - it's part of the modern retail and catering development off the High Street, but in my experience it beats the more "olde worlde" places in Broadway for choice, quality, service and value. [ 184 more words. ]

http://iabtours.com/foxy-browns/

Although it sounds like a basement jazz club in the backstreets of New York, Foxy Brown’s is actually an excellent coffee shop and cafe in the Cotswolds.  It’s in the popular village of Broadway, and is highly recommended whether you’re...Read more

07/08/2015

There's more to Crich Tramway Museum then just Trams.Although the tram displays are a big part of the day, as is spending an old penny on all day tram ticket and riding up and down the line, there are also other things to do. When we visited, we started off with coffee and cake in the tea room and then had a tram ride to the end of the line. [ 203 more words. ]

http://iabtours.com/crich-tramway-museum/

There’s more to Crich Tramway Museum then just Trams.Although the tram displays are a big part of the day, as is spending an old penny on all day tram ticket and riding up and down the line, there are also...Read more

28/07/2015

Last weekend we joined Liverpool’s Magical Mystery Tour and set off to discover The Beatles’ history. Along the way we saw some of the childhood homes of all four Beatles, some of their schools, and had photo stops at Penny...Read more