Friday, 13 July 2012

A mixed bag of Tours

Elderly mother and daughter from Kurdistan - one spoken english and translated, with two kids 4 & 6 born in USA, a wee bit of a CHALLANGE ! Learning point with two kids, you have to have two wands or a wand and a sword. Where is Harry Potter when you need some magic. Thankfully we had a pair that would share.

"Brilliantly spent time! We had only one day in Edinburgh and at first I wasn't sure how to spend time/what to do with my kids. Thank to Peter we covered a lot and the kids (6 and 4) were entertained and kept walking even after 2 hours. It's nice that we were able to learn all these fascinating facts and give the kids a good work out which helped me to send them straight to bed at the end of the day. Highly recommended."


2 Glaswegians, and yet another Californian. The young man was just finishing off a european trip of about 10 countries !



Musical Belgians - some of the members of a 68 strong Belgium orchestra doing a Scottish tour.   


I asked them to shout Freedom for a group picture - Picture No 1 is polite Belgians. picture No 2 I asked them to be wild highlanders ! I will have to stop leading people astray. They did a 3 hour tour, which ended up going over the Calton Hill. I congratulated them, really well done, and their singing at the end of the Burke and Hare song was Fab !

Thursday, 5 July 2012

More Californians


We wish they would bring some Californian weather. We did a long, long tour today, a stamina test.

Friday, 29 June 2012

Spice up your life


Members from Spice Scotland came on the Graveyard tour on Friday 22 June.

"Thanks for the walk and talk tonight Peter. Even if like me you have been born and brought up in Edinburgh you can always find out more information" Joy

California dreaming


Saints and Sinners had 68 Californians from the Pembroke College's Summer International School on tour Thursday 28 June. A great bunch of students.

Monday, 11 June 2012

Friends from Minnesota USA


Some students from Minnesota USA - they are here for 3 weeks to study Scottish Literature, we went round the some haunts of Edinburgh writers, and looked at some of the influences in the old town and ended up in the atmospheric backroom of an old town pub, now that's Edinburgh culture! 


Saints & Sinners go Double Dutch


A group of 9 Dutch guys, who every year since they graduated from university have met up and travelled to somewhere in the world for the weekend. This year it was Edinburgh and the an S&S tour

 "We all enjoyed an informative and funny tour" regards Jaap.