RenatedavieTour

04/11/2023

The fancier perks of the job as Tourist Guide (British Guild of Tourist Guides): you get
- a photo with the cruise ship captain on the bridge, Saga Travel UK
- to guide a harbour cruise on the ship's own tender and
- to guide the best subtropical garden in the area Trebah
Thank you for letting me help to make the Ciaran forced break in Falmouth Cornwall UK a nicer experience for the guests.

18/10/2023

Very interesting open day at Heartlands from Cornish Metals Inc. about the reopening of the Cornish mine South Crofty for tin. The pumping-out will commence next Thursday. Next to interesting information, good chats and superb cake I got a hat out of it. Ready and well equipped for the next Tourist Guide season when I will again be introducing visitors to Cornwall to Cornish historic and current Mining. British Guild of Tourist Guides

15/10/2023

One of my guests favourites and also of mine. Whether you just see the Mount from the mainland, take an exciting boat trip at high tide or walk the causeway at low tide - the views are stunning. Join me on a tour to hear more. 🙂

Myths, legends, battles of old, politics, religion, a mummified cat and Jack & the Beanstalk.

📍 Intriguing St Michael's Mount, Cornwall.

Uncover St Michael's Mount with

23/07/2023

My favourite british engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel took four attempts at the time to have his wonderful design of Bristol's Avon gorge suspension bridge approved. At 101 m high it offers fantastic views onto the floating harbour of Bristol as well as the Avon gorge itself.

British Guild of Tourist Guides

22/07/2023

Here is John Cabot or Giovanni Cabotto, his name in his original italian language, looking across the Floating harbour of Bristol onto his ship 'The Matthew'. The Genuan/Venetian merchant sailor came to England and in 1497 with permission of Henry VII detected the North-American West passage via Newfoundland and hence started the important fish trade.

19/06/2023

Cornwall's Minack Theatre, an open-air working theatre, built on a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea.

Theatres don't get more dramatic than this!

Discover Cornwall with

21/05/2023

Here is another new companion of mine: the cornish sheep. He is yet to be named. So what are you voting for?

Hermann / Albert / William / David

06/05/2023

Happy & Glorious, a great coronation.
Many happy returns to our king.

12/04/2023

It's just a tad stormy today down here in Cornwall. The gardens are closed so we swapped the programme to stormy wave watching. It's fascinating, just stay save and in good distance from the cliff.

10/04/2023

Well today was a success - my guests from the Viking Jupiter were literally blown away by the beautiful cornish scenery on a quite blustery day. Trebah Gardens were just sparkling wonderful. Falmouth town worthy of a proper sailing wind.

10/04/2023

Start of the cruise ship season in Falmouth with a Bang, two at once: The Viking Jupiter and the Balmoral arrived this morning. Time to get to work 🙂.

09/03/2023

Never say no to Heligan 😉. Everything is just about ready to burst into bloom.

What a week! ☀️ ☔️ 💨
We had our first group of the season staying at the this week, and despite some terrible weather warnings, we’ve been lucky on the whole and compared with the rest of the UK, it’s been tropical!! 🌴
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Here’s a snap of some of this week’s guests hanging out with the Heligan scarecrow! Thanks to for the photo!
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09/03/2023

Great start to my Tourist Guiding year 2023. Had a lovely day with the group from Cornwall Discovered.

30/11/2022

Loved being the Guide for this wonderful group from

Hello from the wonderful group on tour with us this week!

We’re being treated to some dry and even at times sunny weather for our first Winter in Cornwall programme 🎉

Many thanks to the fantastic Blue Badge guide who took this photo whilst guiding our group yesterday at the Eden Project!
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13/07/2022

Guiding for the Road Scholars from the Aegean Odyssey. Today in colourful Falmouth, yesterday in colourful St Ives. Fun days.

10/07/2022

It is Hydrangea time - beautiful variety of species at Trelissick garden. I easily spent two hours looking at the colourful petals today.

09/07/2022

Lovely Fowey town walk with guests from the Hurtigruten 'Maud', couldn't have been better.

09/07/2022

Another nice little luxury gem in Fowey : Maud from Hurtigruten for which I will be doing a town walk.

04/07/2022

The second day in Edinburgh took me to the Rosslyn chapel, a small gothic gem and featured of course in the film 'The Da Vinci Code'. The details of the stone carvings are exquisit as is the colour of the stone itself.

02/07/2022

Edinburgh pur, a few pipers and kilts were about. A bit of Royal, of politics and art ... and it was sunny 😎. Nice day.

02/07/2022

Nice excursion to Crathes castle west of Aberdeen. A small but very interested group, great fun.

30/06/2022

It is dark now but soon we will be passing the most northerly U.K. mainland point - John O'Groats. 874 miles or a 1000 km distance to the most South Westerly Point at Land's End in Cornwall. Whereas I am quite often at Land's End I have only been once to John O'Groats, yet. I hope to go there again.

30/06/2022

Don't be sad, Hamish, that we are leaving your hometown Ullapool. We are three now and friends stick together. We'll have fun on the next few days. And tomorrow Renate is giving a tour to Crathes castle garden, how exciting.

30/06/2022

Hamish and Molly made another friend yesterday and George- Peter will accompany them for the rest of the journey.

30/06/2022

I love the quirky little town of Ullapool on Loch Broom. The scenery is stunning and nearby Inverewe gardens and Corrieshalloch gorge well worth a visit.

30/06/2022

Awesome day yesterday at St Kilda's, a group of islands far beyond the Outer Hebrides. The UNESCO WHS site and NTS nature reserve was home to about 200 people until 1930 and today is a favourite breeding ground for seabirds like Puffins, Fulmars and its own species of Wren and Soay sheep. Fantastic scenery, flora and fauna and great fun arriving via Zodiac.

28/06/2022

A few evening impressions of our ad hoc stop in Belfast.

28/06/2022

'Der Mensch denkt aber Gott lenkt'. The phrase means that mankind's plans can get interrupted by higher power. Like today when the weather prevented another portcall near Londonderry. Hence I won't be seing the Giant causeway afterall - but - for the first time in my 17 years in the U.K. I have now observed dolphins playing around and hunting in the Bay of the river Foyle. What a joy. 🥰🐬

28/06/2022

We are approaching Greencastle port, access to Londonderry and I am so excited that at long last I will get to see the Giant's causeway. 😃