Danny Parlour, London Blue Badge Tourist Guide

30/01/2025

February is LGBT+ History Month, so to celebrate, here’s a rundown of things you can do in London to learn about the city's LGBTQ+ history:

25/01/2025

From the Dumfries statue of Scotland's Bard (complete with his beloved border collie 'Luath') HAPPY BURNS NIGHT to in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A celebratory night of Haggis, H***h, Highland reels and the reciting of Burns' lyrics - our favourite is probably the anthemic 'Scots Wha Hae' - a poetic adaptation of Robert the Bruce’s speech before the Battle of Bannockburn.

Rousing stuff, accompanied by a wee dram or six of Scottish whisky!

25/12/2024

To all of you who follow me… Merry Christmas! I’ve had a wonderful year and am feeling very grateful. I so hope that you’re all enjoying the holidays and I wish you a very Happy 2025!
Off to The Corinthia hotel now, to give a family visiting from the USA a private Christmas morning walking tour of London. Catch you later!! All my best, Danny the Tour Guide.

19/12/2024

A boozy Christmas tree, outside Gordon's, London's oldest wine bar established in 1890 - step into its atmospheric subterranean rooms, and this historic place feels older still.

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Gordon's Wine Bar

07/12/2024

19/10/2024

❤️ I love two third of it 👍

06/10/2024

06/10/2024

I can’t wait! ❤️🐻

25/09/2024

The 24th coolest, in fact.

17/09/2024

Great to see.

The official companion to the hit TV series All Creatures Great & Small launches on 26th September in hardback. The book offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the award winning TV show with lots of photographs from the filming of the first 5 series. The launch takes place a week after the latest ser...

15/09/2024

Author of 66 detective novels, Agatha Christie was born of this day in 1890 in Torquay.

📍The Agatha Christie Memorial, at the intersection of Cranbourn St and Great Newport Street, near London's Covent Garden.

Here are some killer facts about this queen of crime:

✔️ She had her coming out party in a hotel in Egypt ('Death on the River Nile')

✔️ During WWI she volunteered with the Red Cross & trained as a pharmacist (at least 28 of Christie's novels feature poisonings)

✔️ She learned to surf in Honolulu ('The Man in the Brown Suit')

✔️ Her first husband, Archie, was a golfer who had an affair (and later married) a much younger woman who was also a keen golfer ('The Murder on the Links')

✔️ Her second husband was an archaeologist and she helped him with his digs, one of which was in Mesopotamia ('Murder in Mesopotamia')
.. you can see the thread. In the words of Mark Twain "Write what you know" may be apt for Christie, though we have yet to discover a Christie novel that deals with her run-ins with the tax-man in the UK & US - 'Death by Tax' perhaps?! 😊

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21/08/2024

The officially recognised standard-setting and awarding body for tourist guiding in England, Northern Ireland and Jersey

15/07/2024