David Kelleher Tourist Guide

29/12/2024

A cold but atmospheric start to a guiding day at an unusually empty Sloane Square in London.

15/08/2024

12/07/2024

at the

10/07/2024

The always magical and less visited standing stones at Avebury, Wiltshire.

05/07/2024

delivers us from the mundane

08/06/2024

You never know what you are going to run into in London :)

02/06/2024

Hardwick Hall, a fabulous Elizabethan house in Derbyshire, built for the amazing Bess of Hardwick. She had quite the life. Married four times to the crème of society, on multiple occasions she was perilously close to ruin but her charm and intelligence saved the day. A really lovely place to visit with gardens and catering not far from the motorway between London and York.
1) The High Great Chamber with portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Hilliard) and Mary, Queen of Scots [they never got this close in real life!]
2) The Long Gallery - the largest surviving and only one with its original (amazing) tapestries.
3) The Green Velvet Bedroom with original Abraham Tapestries [c.1580/90]
4) View from Old Hardwick Hall

18/05/2024

World class music tonight from Syrian-Armenian singer at the Southbank Centre in London. Wonderful voice. Fabulous audience participation. Thank you for the ticket 🎟️

15/05/2024

A very tranquil evening in Broadway, The Cotswolds.

27/03/2024

Harry Potter Fans might remember this location from the original movie. It was the entrance to the magical world of Gringotts Bank. See many locations from the movies on a visit to London this year…but we can’t go inside here anymore. Too dangerous, it’s infested with goblins!

23/03/2024

Ain’t Nothin’ But - the Blues Bar the quiet before the wailing guitar storm in London Soho.

14/02/2024

It’s certainly not true that all Kings and Queens were universally respected. One of the least popular, a man who couldn’t be trusted to keep his word for five minutes, was King John who signed Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede near Windsor after a revolt from his Barons and then shortly after decided not to honour it. This did not end well for him. Dysentery is the most likely cause of death but rumours abounded including poisoning and the unlikely but comic ‘surfeit of peaches’.

12/02/2024

Windsor Castle after the crowds have gone. A crystal clear evening by St George’s Chapel.

09/02/2024

The very atmospheric Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah with trees covered in Spanish Moss.

02/02/2024

Mardi Gras in New Orleans one of the great street parties in the world.

31/12/2023

19/12/2023

The earliest acquisition of the National Portrait Gallery possibly a contemporary image of William Shakespeare.