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Hello, I'm Laura, a qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide for Scotland, North East England and Yorkshire
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21/08/2024

02/07/2024

Fab Four Blue Badge Guides after a mad busy day in York working with a lovely school group from Argentina

02/07/2024

29/06/2024

Oh to be in Edinburgh, now that summer's here.

29/05/2024

So today is .

Who knew ?

Today's biscuit is delicious Vanilla and Walnut shortbread from Reids of Caithness courtesy of First class lounge in York.

25/05/2024

Today the new Lowry and the Sea Exhibition opens at the Maltings Gallery in Berwick upon Tweed.

My colleage Tess and I were involved with training the guides who will be telling the story of Lowry and the Sea and the artist's love of Berwick through 20-minute tours at 12.30 every day (Wednesday - Sunday).

And the new guides are looking forward to guiding their first visitors to the exhibition, which launches on 25th May

https://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/lowry-and-the-sea-exhibition-entry-day-ticket-2/

Maltings Berwick British Guild of Tourist Guides Tours with Tess
Tours with Laura The Lowry

20/04/2024

Sunshine on Leith today helping guests from cruises

18/04/2024

Today is World Heritage Day

I'm very fortunate as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide to share some of the UNESCO World Heritage sites with visitors from around the globe.

The Forth Bridge was described by UNESCO as a masterpiece of human creative genius and an aesthetic triumph of tremendous grace, despite its solid construction and lack of any decoration.

13/04/2024

Back in business, back at the Angel of the North this week with a lovely group staying in Newcastle

04/04/2024

It's lovely to be back in York.
When I worked here many moons ago for this was the view from my office.
Painted by L S Lowry
image credit York Museums Trust

04/04/2024

Great to be back in York preparing for a tour

19/03/2024

Happy to be celebrating by giving a guided tour to a lovely group from Rochdale area today. We drove through Newcastle and along the coast to Tynemouth- in the sunshine!

The picture shows me at Tynemouth also in the sunshine a few years ago, on one of the first training days for our new group of Blue Badge Guides- I am happy to say that all of the guides were successfully accredited by the and are now leading tours throughout the North East of England

18/03/2024

Today I'm attending
Finding out about tourism developments in North East England

It's great to meet up with my local colleagues from

I'm very proud to work as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide in the North of England and Scotland and I am looking forward to welcoming visitors from all over the world in 2024.

17/03/2024

English Tourism Week is a Visit England initiative to celebrate our diverse and exciting tourism industry.

I am looking forward to welcoming visitors from all over the world in 2024.

I'm very proud to work as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide in the North of England and Scotland- here I am on Hadrian's wall - never the border between the two nations!

Come on a guided tour and find out the real story!

16/03/2024

Blue Badge Guides on a day off- today we followed ' Cuddy's Corse' the pilgrim route from Chester le Street to Durham, symbolic of the journey taken by the monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert over a thousand years ago.

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11/03/2024

The Forth Bridge celebrated its 134th birthday last week.

Did you know that the first train driven over the bridge was driven by a woman, Candida Louise Hay the Marchioness of Tweedale.
That was on 24th January, several weeks before the official opening by Prince of Wales on 4th March 1890.

10/03/2024

The iconic Forth Bridge is 134 years old this week

21/02/2024

Today, on International Tourist Guide Day, guides from both England and Scotland organised a litter pick and clear up at the border crossing.

Tourists and visitors from all over the world stop here for a photo at the famous flags.

This area was looking a bit untidy - about 20 bags of assorted rubbish were collected and now the area is clean and tidy again.

Some of this was wind blown but so much had been deliberately dumped.

But we have left it in a better condition so visitors are welcomed with pride 😀

Thanks to Darren and Ronnie from Scottish Borders Council who took it all away !

21/02/2024

21/02/2024

16/02/2024

The Angel of the North sits on a hill overlooking the Team Valley in Gateshead
The Angel was erected in February 1998 , and is visible from both the main A1 trunk road and the east coast main line making it one of the most publicly viewed works of art, seen by millions of motorists every year.
Designed by Sir Antony Gormley, the Angel has become one of the most recognisable landmarks in the North of England.

16/02/2024

The Angel of the North sits on a hill overlooking the Team Valley in Gateshead
The Angel was erected in February 1998 , and is visible from both the main A1 trunk road and the east coast main line making it one of the most publicly viewed works of art, seen by millions of motorists every year.

Designed by Sir Antony Gormley, the Angel has become one of the most recognisable landmarks in the North of England.

15/02/2024

Happy Birthday

02/02/2024

Holy Island

Almost had the place to ourselves yesterday

02/02/2024

Happy to be helping with tours for the delegates at the recent Coach Tourism Association conference

Delegates from all over the UK were at Hilton Newcastle Gateshead for the conference, visiting Bamburgh Castle The Auckland Project Raby Castle and Newcastle and Gateshead

Photo from Stanley Coaches

27/01/2024

Lisbon

And sunshine

17/01/2024

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Maintenance and refurbishment of the Tyne Bridge started last September and could last for up to four years. The funding package includes a long overdue major maintenance programme for the Tyne Bridge, which includes the sizeable task of painting it, as well as upgrading many parts of its ageing structure. #TyneBridge #NewcastleGateshead #Newcastle #tynebridgerepairs The Grade II* listed structure was last refurbished and painted in 2001 and is well overdue for a refurbishment programme. The paint system was designed to last approximately 18-20 years between major maintenance, and refurbishment works are urgently required. The full programme includes steelwork repairs, full re-painting, concrete repairs, drainage improvements, stonework and masonry repairs, bridge deck waterproofing and resurfacing, parapet protection and bridge joint replacement. These works are required to restore the structure and future proof the route by alleviating the need for continual adhoc maintenance works.

�All the Kings Fifteen kings from William the Conqueror to Henry IV. York Minster #York #guidedtour #visitYork #yorkshire #britainsbestguides #yorkshiresbestguides #tourswithlaura

today we followed ' Cuddy's Corse' the pilgrim route from Chester le Street to Durham, symbolic of the journey taken by the monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert over a thousand years ago. The Procession led to Durham Cathedral, built as a shrine to St. Cuthbert #CuddysCorse #StCuthbertProcession. #DurhamCathedral #Pilgrimage #caminoingles #NorthEastEngland #NorthernSaints #TourswithLaura #TheDunholmPiper

It's not just in Scotland Today as part of the St Cuthbert Procession we heard the Border Pipes being played by Paul Martin. The border pipes are related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe but quite different and a much older instrument. Which do you prefer ? #BorderPipes #TheDunholmPiper #CuddysCorse #StCuthbertProcession. #Durham Cathedral #Pilgrimage #caminoingles #NorthEastEngland

How's this for a whisky collection... There are 3384 bottles of whisky in the vault at the Scotch Whisky Experience. These were collected over many years by Claive Vadiz, the founder of the Brazilian Association of Whisky Collectors. This was brought to Scotland in 2009 and is the highlight of a visit. Who fancies a dram ? #whisky #whiskyambassador #scotch #aweedram #slainté

So sad to hear that the Sycamore tree has been deliberately felled last night. The iconic view on Hadrian's wall is no more. Sycamore Gap was voted English Tree of the Year in 2016 in the Woodland Trust’s awards and is much-loved by people from across the world. Northumberland National Park Authority would like to ask the public not to visit the site at this time whilst they work to identify what has happened and to make the site safe. #SycamoreGap #Hadrianswall #Nationalpark #treeoftheyear

Hello Newcastle How many other medieval castles have a main line railway running through the middle ? 🏰🚃

Happy International Bagpipe day Recognised now as an instrument played particularly in Scotland, bagpipes are thought to date back to Egypt around 400 B.C. The National Piping Centre in Glasgow is a national and international centre of excellence for the instrument and its music. I visited a couple of times last year with groups visiting Scotland. The students from Pearl High School in Miississippi had great fun trying out the 'chanter' which is used before graduating to the actual pipes. Hard work ! #Bagpipes #lonepiper #Scotland #visitscotland #Highlands #Glasgow #Nationalpipingcentre #music #Guidedtours #tourswithLaura

Happy International Bagpipe day Recognised now as an instrument played particularly in Scotland, bagpipes are thought to date back to Egypt around 400 B.C. The National Piping Centre in Glasgow is a national and international centre of excellence for the instrument and its music. I visited a couple of times last year, and had a great demo from Jamie, one of the tutors. There's a great restaurant too 😋 #Bagpipes #lonepiper #Scotland #visitscotland #Highlands #Glasgow #Nationalpipingcentre #music #Guidedtours #tourswithLaura

Vindolanda Tablets Vindolanda in the distance, the name translates as 'White lands' It's hidden in a hollow and one of the last places the snow melts, hence the waterlogged soil. It’s 50 years ago since the Vindolanda Tablets were discovered by renowned archaeologist the late Robin Birley during routine excavations at the site of a Roman fortress in Northumberland- pre daring Hadrian’s Wall. Written on thin postcard-sized slivers of wood with these tablets date to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD Their survival is remarkable, trapped in waterlogged soil for almost 2000 years What is also amazing is that they show messages from ordinary soldiers and give us a glimpse on to life on the northernmost frontier of the British empire. One of the tablets talks about the difficulties of bringing supplies to the northern part of Britain, due to the roads being in such a bad state, and another one is a note sent to accompany a package of socks 🧦 sandals🩴 and underpants🩲 When they were discovered, they were the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. You can see the tablets on display in their original location in the museum at the fort at ‭Vindolanda, still run by Andrew Birley, Robin’s son and some of them are also in the British Museum in London which declared the tablets to be as Britain’s top archeological treasure. I’m lucky enough to visit ‭Vindolanda‬ regularly working as a guide, and I really get excited about showing people these incredible tablets giving us a glimpse into history ‭#vindolanda‬ #vindolandatrust ‭#vindolanda‬tablets #Roman writing tablets #Romanhandwriting #Historyatourfingertips #‭vindolanda‬romanfort #Hadrianswall #romanfrontier #RomanArmyMuseum #Romanhistory #britishmuseum #nationaltreasure #guidedtours #tourswithlaura #britainsbestguides

This wild and desolate area was the site of the "Redeswire Fray' the last armed conflict between England and Scotland prior to the Union of the crowns in 1603. Wardens of the Scottish and English border regions traditionally met at Carter Bar at to settle disputes. Of July 1575 things became violent and a number of Englishmen were killed or captured with the Scots victorious. #Scotland #England #border #CarterBar #Redesdale #Redeswire #GuidedTour #TourswithLaura #Northumberland #nationalpark

Room with a view From YHA Keswick in the English Lake District #notjustforyouth #Keswick #Youth Hostel #YHA #youthhostelsassociation #RiverGreta #FitzPark #lakedistrict #nationalPark

I'm always stupidly excited going over the High Level bridge by bus ! #mykindofToon #NewcastleGateshead #publictransport #HighLevelBridge #AngelofTheNorth

View from the bridge... this morning we were lucky enough to have a glorious bright sunny day for our trip to the top of the Forth Bridge. This is an amazing piece of engineering and before the trip we heard all about the trials and tribulations of the engineers and the men who built this amazing structure #ForthBridge #ForthRailbridge #Forthbridges #FirthofForth #SouthQueensferry #GuidedTour #Barnardos

Sage Gateshead ..changing its name A call has gone out from Sage Gateshead to audiences, artists, communities and all who feel a connection to the building and the charity it represents to help create not just a new name but a new visual identity for what was originally known as the regional music centre. We can take that to mean a new branding. Changing the appearance of Sir Norman Foster’s distinctive building would be a challenge and nobody is suggesting that should happen. All are invited to share thoughts, memories, photos and ideas as part of a campaign with the hashtag #sgchanges which will be popping up online and via the Sage Gateshead website. https://changes.sagegateshead.com/

Edinburgh drummers #PulseofthePlace #MusicMatters #edinburgh #summersolstice #longestday

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