David Kelleher Tourist Guide

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.

03/12/2023

A very Christmassy Covent Garden.

14/11/2023

The magnificent Ben Folds at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall.

25/10/2023

Lovely light around the High Altar in St Paul’s Cathedral.

15/10/2023

The first English terrestrial globe made in 1592 possibly a gift from Sir Walter Raleigh to Henry Percy ‘The Wizard Earl’, 9th Earl of Northumberland. It can be found at Petworth House, West Sussex along with a stunning art collection including a Bosch, Van D***s and several Turners. And then there’s the landscape garden…

09/10/2023

The Chalice Well is the location in Christian myth where Joseph of Arimathea hid the chalice used to catch some of Christ’s blood at his crucifixion - The Holy Grail. The water here runs red and never fails. Just one of the many legends associated with the magical areas around Glastonbury in Somerset, England.

27/08/2023

Wonderful gardens and view to the very unique house at Sezincote.

18/08/2023

The Library - Kenwood House - a Robert Adam’s 18th Century interior masterpiece. And what a collection of paintings.

16/08/2023

Some sheep, standing stones, the bay and to the left of the white houses the caves (where the Shadow Baby was born in Game of Thrones and more). Then Mary McBrides pub and Mary herself (a relative) from a photograph. Glorious weather.

06/08/2023

Zoom in for some Cotswolds humour :)

25/07/2023

Immersive Speakeasy Jazz Experience great fun and wonderful performances.

18/07/2023

Boing, boing, boing…

15/07/2023

Girton College, Cambridge the first women’s college in 1869. In 1948 granted full status by the university, the first. Now Co-Educational since 1976 another first!

11/07/2023

My group today had the good fortune to arrive at the Raven enclosure at the Tower of London as a new recruit REX was being unveiled. Note on the left hand side overseeing the proceedings! REX getting used to lots of attention.

29/06/2023

Back to the Stones.

13/06/2023

Evening walk from St Paul’s to The Tower with some university students. The whole world seems to be sitting by the river tonight.

21/05/2023

Under the Bloody Tower looking towards Traitors Gate !

10/05/2023

At the launch this evening of St Paul’s new exhibition on ‘Sir Christopher Wren - The Quest for Knowledge’ in the tercentenary of his death. Well worth visiting especially if you haven’t been to the cathedral in a while as there is so much more :)

09/05/2023

Coronation theatre still up in Westminster Abbey this week.

07/04/2023

Nice day for a drive through some pretty Surrey villages (not my ride!)
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19/03/2023

The Music Room in the gloriously mad Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Indian on the outside, Chinese on the inside, neither in reality.

01/02/2023

London in the early morning.

27/01/2023

More of the endless street art everywhere in Santiago, Chile.