28/06/2024
Today’s tour was with Shawn and his family from San Antonio, Texas they was on their way to South Africa and booked a London Layover Tour with to see the best of London while waiting for their connecting flight.
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01/06/2024
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27/05/2024
A lovely day showing the Kaithakottil family from Texas the “Best of London” their first visit to our great city. Thanks to
20/05/2024
Summer is here, today’s tour is heading to the Cotswolds a beautiful area of outstanding natural beauty and the first outing for Panama “Hattie” this year.
20/04/2024
Beautiful Spanish tapas lunch , Iberico Chorizo & grilled bread with tomatoes, wild mushroom & truffle croquettes, Iberico ham croquettes, Spanish omelette, sautéed vegetables, wild mushrooms & romesco sauce and Basque cheese cake. Amazing food and service.
13/04/2024
I had the pleasure of going to the experience today, I received a random act of kindness gift from them, what an amazing structure it is thank you so much for choosing me.
05/03/2024
Happy St Piran’s Day
Saint Piran’s Day or the Feast of Saint Piran, is the national day of Cornwall held annually on 5th March. The day is named St Piron, one of the patron saints of Cornwall and also the patron saint of tin miners.
St Piran’s Day started as one of the many tinners’ holidays observed by the tin miners in Cornwall. The modern observance as a national symbol of the people of Cornwall started in the late 19th and early 20th century when Celtic revivalists sought to provide the people of Cornwall with a national day, similar to those observed by other nations. Since the 1950s, the celebration has become more popular and since the start of the 21st century almost every Cornish community holds some sort of celebration to mark the event. St Piran’s flag is also seen flying throughout Cornwall on this day.
Parades and processions are held every year in towns across Cornwall to celebrate St Piran’s day, even some schools and businesses give the day off to enjoy the festivities, the former MP for North Cornwall Dan Rogerson even asked the Government in 2006 to make St Piran’s day a public holiday in Cornwall. So if you’re thinking of celebrating St Piran’s day you could do no better than have a Saffron bun, a piece of Hevva cake with some clotted cream and a cup of tea or even a Cornish pasty with a glass of scrumpy.
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06/02/2024
Queen Elizabeth II Accession to the Throne
On this day in 1952 it was announced that King George VI died at Sandringham House, Norfolk aged 56. His eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth, would now be Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
In early 1952, Elizabeth and Philip set off for a tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of Kenya. On 6th February they had just returned to their Kenyan home after a night spent at Treetops Lodge. At the time it was was reported that she arrived as a Princess but left as a Queen.
Word arrived of the Kings death and consequently Elizabeth’s immediate accession to the throne. Her Private Secretary Martin Charteris asked her to choose her name, she chose to remain Elizabeth, “of course”. She was proclaimed Queen and the royal party hastily returned to the UK. She and the Duke of Edinburgh immediately moved into Buckingham Palace.
Traditionally the Queen chooses to spend the day in quiet reflection at Sandringham House. As well as becoming Queen on this day it is also the day her beloved father died. Due to the current pandemic Her Majesty will be at Windsor Castle where she and the Duke of Edinburgh have been in isolation since the spring of 2020, the government has announced that in 2022 the Queen’s 70th Jubilee will have an additional Bank Holiday and special events throughout the year to mark this momentous occasion.
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31/01/2024
Guy / Guido Fawkes 13th April 1570 - 31st January 1606
On the 31st January 1606, Guy Fawkes and three others; Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, and Robert Keyes – were dragged from the Tower on wattled hurdles to the Old Palace Yard at Westminster, opposite the building they had attempted to destroy. His fellow plotters were then hanged and quartered. Fawkes was the last to stand on the scaffold. He asked for forgiveness of the King and state, while keeping up his “crosses and idle ceremonies” (Catholic practices). Weakened by torture and aided by the hangman, Fawkes began to climb the ladder to the noose, but either through jumping to his death or climbing too high so the rope was incorrectly set, he managed to avoid the agony of the latter part of his ex*****on by breaking his neck. His lifeless body was nevertheless quartered and, as was the custom, his body parts were then distributed to “the four corners of the kingdom”, to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.
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30/01/2024
On this day:
The VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. Only 15 medals, of which 11 to members of the British Army and 4 to members of the Australian Army, have been awarded since the Second World War. The traditional explanation of the source of the metal from which the medals are struck is that it derives from a Russian cannon captured at the siege of Sevastopol. However, research has indicated another origin for the material.
King George V felt very strongly that the decoration should never be forfeited and in a letter from his Private Secretary, Lord Stamfordham, on 26 July 1920, his views are forcefully expressed:
“The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.”
A single company of jewellers, Hancocks & Co, has been responsible for the production of every VC awarded since its inception.
24/12/2023
Christmas has officially started at CLTHQ and we’re now taking a few days off to eat and drink a bit too much!
Happy Christmas to you all. 🎄🎅🎁☃️
16/11/2023
Haddon Hall Christmas artisan market today, really nice makers and crafts on display.
15/11/2023
Mam Tor may have beaten us today; wind, rain, and cold but in the words of Arnie “I’ll be back”.
04/11/2023
The countdown is on to the Cabbie London Tours Christmas Lights season. Whose coming along?
24/10/2023
London Layover Tour today, meet and greet at drive into London for a 4 hour tour and back for their connecting flight. Yvette (A Chef) and her daughter Margaret met executive pastry chef . Thanks
18/10/2023
Such lovely guests today, Linda, Linda and their husband’s from Michigan visiting London for the first time. Safe travels guys hope to see you again ✈️
15/10/2023
Churchill in 4 hats, an amazing interactive tour by the one and only 4 hours of pure joy.
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11/10/2023
A wonderful tour with the McClanahan family who are from New Orleans and will be supporting their team playing at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this Sunday. Go Go
23/09/2023
One for the road, small Cornish breakfast homeward bound now.
18/09/2023
Tintagel Castle:
A medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island adjacent to the village of Tintagel, a castle was built on the site by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall in the 13th century, during the High Middle Ages. It later fell into disrepair and ruin.
The castle has a long association with legends related to King Arthur. This was first recorded in the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth described Tintagel as the place of Arthur's conception in his mythological account of British history. Geoffrey told the story that Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon, was disguised by Merlin's sorcery to look like Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, the husband of Igraine, Arthur's mother.
11/09/2023
I spent the day in Hampshire with Patrick and Lauren from Ohio. They booked a Jane Austen tour and amongst the places we visited were her place of birth, her childhood home and her graveside.
03/09/2023
London Night Tour, two hours of seeing the best of London illuminated.
30/08/2023
Meeting guests for their tour of the Cotswolds.
25/07/2023
L. S. Lowry
1. Mill Scene, 1965
2. Coming from the Mill, 1930
3. Mill Scene, 1953
4. Study of a Football Match, undated
5. Man Lying on a Wall, 1957
6. A Fight, about 1935
25/07/2023
Yayoi Kusama amazing exhibition
05/07/2023
Today we celebrate the NHS 75th anniversary.
The NHS was founded in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery.
Dr Somerville Hastings, President of the Socialist Medical Association successfully proposed a resolution at the 1934 Labour Party Conference that the party should be committed to the establishment of a State Health Service. But it wasn’t until Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won the 1945 election he appointed Aneurin Bevan as Health Minister. Bevan then embarked upon what the official historian of the NHS, Charles Webster, called an "audacious campaign" to take charge of the form the NHS finally took. Bevan's National Health Service was proposed in Westminster legislation for England and Wales from 1946 and Scotland from 1947, and the Northern Ireland Parliament’s Public Health Services Act 1947.
Bevan's most significant legacy is the National Health Service. Bevan foresaw that it would always be the subject of public debate, warning that "This service must always be changing, growing and improving; it must always appear to be inadequate." But seven decades after it was founded, a 2013 opinion poll conducted on behalf of British Future found that the NHS was more popular than at its creation, and more popular than the monarchy, the BBC and the military.
05/07/2023
The weather may have been against us yesterday but in true British stoicism we carried on regardless. Salisbury cathedral is an amazing place built between 1220-1320 and custodian of one of only 4 original copies of the Magna Carta.
05/07/2023
Early morning start for the guests today so breakfast boxes are provided for the journey. Stonehenge and Salisbury.
27/06/2023
Approximately every 3 years I watch the latest Wes Anderson film I know I’ll come out completely confused and wouldn’t have understood any of the story but I will still go and think I’ve enjoyed it.
25/06/2023
What a great day it was to show some guests from California the beautiful Georgian spa town of Bath.
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