by Mike Griffiths | Nov 14, 2024 | Diary of An Apprentice Tourist Guide
Back in mid August, with the temperature forecast for 25C, it was time to put the shorts on for a guided tour of the shore of Mont St Michel Bay. This time, it’s not me doing the guiding, but I am noting the actions of our local guide to explore the bay and hoping to...
by Mike Griffiths | Nov 6, 2024 | Diary of An Apprentice Tourist Guide
I wrote yesterday about the Caerphilly-Lannion Twinning Association and Jean-Jacques Monnier’s whistlestop tour of South Wales history. Today we were in a large tourist coach and I was on the microphone describing the route to Big Pit Mining Museum (in French!)....
by Mike Griffiths | Oct 24, 2024 | Diary of An Apprentice Tourist Guide
Caerphilly has been twinned with Lannion, a town in the Cote d’Armor area of Brittany, since 1991. The major event in the Twinning calendar is a biennial visit by our Breton friends, with a party of Caerphilly residents visiting Lannion on the alternate year....
by Mike Griffiths | Sep 15, 2024 | Diary of An Apprentice Tourist Guide
I play squash twice a week with Colin. This July was his 66th birthday and his wife Linda’s birthday followed in August. She had treated him to a guided visit to Bristol Waterfront led by a guide dressed as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which he enjoyed immensely. He...
by Mike Griffiths | Jul 15, 2024 | Diary of An Apprentice Tourist Guide
Blaenafon Alongside my training to be a tourist guide, I also volunteer with Cadw – the arm of Welsh Government that looks after historic monuments. One of the benefits of this is that we have regular training days where we are shown around the various Cadw...
