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Amanda Whitehead Wales Tourist Guide

I am a friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining Official Wales Tourist guide who'd love to show you
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21/06/2024

Too late for solstice at top of mountain (alore of watching with cup of tea in ned too strong first thing) but listening to the choughs and spotting emerging heather amongst the bedstraw give midsummer peace.

20/06/2024

RNLI a charity beloved by Brits as we are an island nation. Many of us remember collecting milk bottle tops or similar for . This one in was not funded that way though the previous three there were bought partly with my bottle tops!

15/06/2024

Over the border today learning how rock salt is evaporated from brine - contrast and compare with visits to Halen Môn sea salt that visitors so enjoy

12/06/2024

One of the joys of my job is seeing familiar places from different angles - trains and boats (and I've even guided on a plane!) Today with Rib Ride the knowledgeable skipper told us all about Bangor pier, smuggler's cave, lighthouse building and the important bird colonies especial the cormorants and a seal came very close !

08/06/2024

The pretty triple-naved church St Gwynhoyd set by a wooded stream at the edge of Wales was founded in the 6th century and includes a casting of a Celtic prayer bell with square sides

07/06/2024

I've been having a short break from a busy guiding season and walking the North Wales Pilgrim's Way / Taith Pererin Gogledd Cymru which has now joined Llwybr Arfordir Cymru / Wales Coast Path. Sand and soft grass, friends and tea, macro views and micro botanising. Life is indeed good

01/06/2024

Today showing Australian and New Zealand guests on a Botanical cruise what British garden and mountain flora

30/05/2024

A good tour guide points out the little things you may walk right by and uses them to draw you deeper into the natural and human culture of an area. Two examples from yesterday's hike. Butterwort - an insectivorous plant that grows in the acid bogs of Eryri (snowdonia) and the lovely wrought iron gate made by local blacksmith Dylan Parry which reflects the syncline (layered geology) that you shortly see in the cliffs around Cwm Idwal.

28/05/2024

Today we went up to the top of the towers (13th century) and then down into the depths of a mine where 4000 years ago children were scraping copper out of the mountain. Wales always delivers!

23/05/2024

Truly a gem

20/05/2024

Showing off Snowdonia - again

15/05/2024

Wales showing itself off well to a group from Ascot

13/05/2024

Puffin spotting and flower identification on private tour from We outran the rain Wales Best GuidesBritish Guild of Tourist Guides

09/05/2024

Lovely day with Canadian family exploring 4,000 years of history in North West Wales - the sun shone!

08/05/2024

Môn/Anglesey - one short walk so many botanical and archeological delights

05/05/2024

North Wales escapung the crowds to explore old quarries including where paintings from National Gallery were stored in the war. Discovering new (to me) breeds of sheep (Hampshire Down?)

01/05/2024

Exploring eastern Anglesey yesterday (blessed with sightings of a red squirrel, a hare and also farmer and his dogs moving sheep with their lambs) we stumbled across a little church with a plaque inside to the least famous of the Morris brothers. His older brothers were talented musicians, chart-makers, naturalists, historians. The youngest brother died in battle in the Caribbean where he is more infamous as he bought a slave.

21/04/2024

Lovely day with private car and two spritely octogenarian gentlemen castle visiting, steam train riding, salt tasting. Wales Best Guides British Guild of Tourist Guides

18/04/2024

Selfie time!

17/04/2024

Out and about in Portmeirion and Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways today. Can you spy new St. Peter out of the window whilst "old" wooden St. Peter gets to rest inside?

13/04/2024

Do you remember “The Prisoner “? The 60s series has a cult following like Star Trekkers and they are marching around in the rain today- shame for them as the rest of Wales has quite good weather!

12/04/2024

Out and about with Arts society watching Jon Jo's skilled craftsmanship at the Slate Museum and interpreting the wonderful Rex Whistler trompe-l'œil mural at Plas Newydd Anglesey Amgueddfa Cymru Wales Best Guides British Guild of Tourist Guides

04/04/2024

On the far northern tip of Wales is St. Patrick’s church - because the saint was shipwrecked here in the 5th century and survived by water from the spring below where the church is now. Today I climbed down there and verified the spring. Look also at the light streaming in the unusual windows - the man who paid for the restoration was Muslim so no images of living things hence the patterns in the glass and tiles. Wales Best Guides British Guild of Tourist Guides

31/03/2024

Pasg Hapus pawb

28/03/2024

As you know a friend and I have been plodding North Wales Pilgrim's Way / Taith Pererin Gogledd Cymru for a year. We love the trail as not only does in go through the best of countryside but lots of interest to tourist guides. Today first picture is Cochwillan, a wonderful 15th century hall house, the second is us geekishly celebrating another milestone on Thomas Telford's "new road". The chair is the Augustine Throne in Bangor cathedral because the Bishop of Bangor is currently Archbishop of Wales and the last figure is a green man pew end - Enjoy like we did this morning

20/03/2024

When guiding we use TVPs (top visual priorities)i.e. things the group can see and will want to know about before you get on to anything else and here is a big one as we come out of Holyhead port. The old Anglesey Aluminium chimney which was so high its head was often in the clouds. Well it is no more as at this afternoon. Credit for pic

18/03/2024

Love my job - today hearing the legend of Gelert the faithful dog and visiting Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation with students from Wales Best Guides British Guild of Tourist Guides for a marvellous insight into the professionalism of these volunteers with very little public funding. Mountain Rescue in the UK is free thanks to their dedication.

18/03/2024

Here I am stood next to part of Offa's D**e, the boundary built by the Mercian king Offa in the 790s to warn the Welsh "stay over there!" The popular long distance trail (shown here on the map reproduced by the Cicerone guide book) does not always follow the D**e taking a route of more interest to hikers. In this case the path follows the Clwydian Hills to the West ignoring this bit of the earthwork

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Back in the saddle with jobs every day this week. Yesterday an American family with a farm visit, slate museum and Welsh castle

Triple harp - enjoy. Telyn deires mwynhauwch

Definitely a Saint theme today - as walked some of North Wales Pilgrims Way. saint Pio in Pantasaph friary and then St. Winifred at her well. Very appropriate on Pope Benedict's funeral day?