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A native of London and Windsor,
Hugh qualified as a City of London Guide in 1996, and as a Blue Badge
Guide in 2003. He worked on the Open Top Buses in Paris and London and
on day trip coaches for the big touring companies. Hugh specialises in
History and Prehistory, Churches and Cathedrals, Castles and Palaces,
Museums, Royalty, London Areas in Depth and is especially interested in
History, Architecture, Theatre, and Walking Tours.
Hugh recently completed the
Windsor and Eton Endorsement, a Continuing
Professional Development course offered by the
Institute of Tourist Guiding. The course covered
Windsor Castle, St George's Chapel, Windsor Town
Centre, Eton, Eton College, The Royal Landscape and
Windsor Great Park.
Hugh is
qualified to make your visit to most places in England a pleasant and
unforgettable experience.
For a personable and entertaining
guide eager to share his wealth of knowledge in an engaging way, look no
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THE BLUE BADGE
The Blue Badge is awarded after
18 months of intense training and testing in a variety of specialty
subjects among which are history, architecture, geography, monarchy, government,
agriculture and countryside, law and social development of the
country.
Apart from the core subjects,
the guides undertake in depth study of places like St Paul's Cathedral, the
Tower of London, the British Museum, a London Gallery, Westminster Abbey,
Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Windsor, Stonehenge, Salisbury, the Cotswolds,
Bath and Canterbury.
Those who successfully complete
all the stages of training are then awarded with the Blue Badge, a hallmark
of excellence recognised by the tourism industry worldwide, and have their
name added to the Institute's of Tourist Guiding Register of Guides.
Blue Badge
Guides are allowed to guide in Windsor Castle, the Tower of
London, Westminster Abbey, Kensington Palace, St Paul's' Cathedral, Oxford
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"Thank you for the wonderful and best
tour we had during our 10 day stay in the UK! (...) You were great and very kind to us!
Your interest in each person seeing and doing everything that they
wanted was very special! (...) I can tell you REALLY enjoy what you do!"
(Jeff and Lauren,USA)
"Hugh
was charming and extremely informative. He has that rare talent of
being able to impart his
knowledge in the most interesting manner. (...) After at least 20 visits to Windsor Castle, I still learned so many new things..."
(Yvonne, London)
"I truly admire your
dedication to history and geography. The most charming though, is the way you expose them so genuine and vivid that the visitor could
in no way fail to retain them permanently and perchance passionately ever and ever..."
(Moubarak, Irak)
 
Discover a new world... a world at your feet! ...
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