Creativity Travel - Guided Tours England

09/10/2024

We are soon to be installing our new Lord Warden of The Cinque Ports. To find out more about this and our fascinating heritage here in this litle corner of South East England ... see https://www.creativitytravel.co.uk/blog-posts/the-cinque-ports/

05/10/2024

The sun shone brightly as the town of Sandwich proudly hosted ‘Speakers Day’ - an annual event hosted by the Mayor of one of the Head Ports or ‘Antient Towns’ in the Confederation of the Cinque Ports. The role of Speaker is held by one of the Mayors of one of the 7 towns, changing over in May each year. A very old ‘office’ from at least 1357, pre-dating the post of Speaker in the House of Commons. Today, ceremonial, with plenty of pomp and circumstance! Once these 7 Head Ports, aided by neighbouring ‘limbs’ throughout Kent and Sussex provided Ship Service for the Monarch, before the advent of the Royal Navy.

03/10/2024

27/09/2024

He’s just checking the status quo nearly 500 years on !

11/09/2024

What a great view from the garden gate at Hilltop Farm.

16/05/2024

Congratulations to our newly qualified SE England Blue Badge Tourist Guides. The graduation ceremony took place in the splendid Guildhall, Rochester, Kent. Pictured here with their tutors, they are ready and enthusiastic to share the treasures of this glorious region with our visitors. White Cliffs, magnificent Cathedrals, stately homes and castles nestle amongst vineyards and picturesque gardens. We look forward to welcoming you soon!

09/05/2024

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On this day in 1662 the first recorded Punch & Judy Show in Britain took place In London's Covent Garden.

So where better to mark this piece of street puppeteering history than at the Punch & Judy pub in Covent Garden - built in 1787 and named after the famous Punch & Judy puppet shows performed for the children of the flower sellers here.

With its roots in the 16th century Italian commedia dell'arte, the Punch & Judy shows have necessarily had to update their content but Mr Punch, his wife Judy, The Babe, Policeman Jack, The Crocodile, Skeleton & Doctor and Toby the Dog live on, 362 years after they first appeared. Now, that's the way to do it!

📷 Danny Parlour, London Blue Badge Tourist Guide

28/04/2024

Just beautiful all year round !

A riot of colour is just waiting to be discovered in the Italian Garden 🧡

28/04/2024

One of the county’s most stunning spring gardens has been named by travel guide Lonely Planet as a must-visit.

27/04/2024

A day of adventures! (and song) Excellent guided tour and performance at Whitstable Castle, Turner Contemporary in Margate and Medieval Centre Sandwich who gave us shelter from the rain but we discovered pretty good acoustics ! Whitstable Castle Sandwich Medieval Centre Thank you everyone!

26/04/2024

☀️ This summer will be packed full of exciting events for all the family, with a host of music, food, culture, heritage and plenty of fun happening on your doorstep!
😃 Thanks to the district’s brilliant event organisers and venues, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
🦖 Our popular Dinosaur Day is also making a welcome return!

There’s so much happening we couldn’t fit it all in one post so go to www.whitecliffscountry.org.uk/whats-on for a full list of events.

26/04/2024

26/04/2024

My group today and tomorrow- lovely people who love to sing! Here they are in St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral.

26/04/2024

The Hugin, our friendly. Viking ship is ready for summer!

23/04/2024

Thrilled to know this. Can’t wait to share Dover, a town where you can ‘see’ over 3000 years of history, with our visitors,arriving by sea, at our .Englandplustours,Fact or Fiction Tours, Here and There with Claire, South East England Tourist Guides Association. Proud to guide our passengers in Kent.

A historic Roman monument is set to reopen to the public after £70,000 was put forward for essential repairs.

22/04/2024

A great tour with this lovely group and delighted with this super review ! Very proud to be a

21/02/2024

Happy International Tourist Guides Day!

20/01/2024

What a lovely weekend drive through the Elham Valley. Architecture,quaint, olde worlde pubs, countryside and vineyards. Not to mention Audrey Hepburn thoughts. Perfect route for a lovely guided tour!

31/12/2023

Wishes all our friends, colleagues, suppliers and valued customers, and those we have still to meet, the happiest of New Years 🥂🍾

12/06/2023

Hot but dreadfully foggy Dover day. Fabulous to see the Spitfire tip its wings over Battle of Britain Memorial. Bit slow to catch it … looks like a fly ! Will zoom in… most moving ❤️

28/12/2022

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Wonder why Sam Mendes chose Margate as the location for Empire of Light? He explains why:
“I was drawn to this particular place because it offered so much opportunity in the scale of
the visual landscape,” says Mendes. “It’s where JMW Turner painted most of his famous paintings – he went there because he said that the skies were the finest in Europe. It’s where TS Eliot wrote the Waste Land, sitting in a shelter just outside of the cinema looking out over the beach and the grey sea that sits beyond. There’s a breadth about the place, which gives it poetry and a cinematic scope.”

Searchlight Pictures

📷 Empire of Light © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved

22/11/2022

17/11/2022

Ever thought about training as a professional Blue Badge Tourist Guide. Here in South East England we are planning a brand new training course, and it is not too late to join us ! [email protected]

23/08/2022

05/05/2022

Tourism is booming ! - We are so pleased to welcome so many new and returning visitors to Kent, East and West Sussex and Surrey. Places to go, people to see - It's all happening ! - We hope to see enthusiastic and passionate local people join the South East Training Course. Buzzing with ideas ? Find out more about joining Britain's Best Guides....