Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
I haven’t posted in a couple of days. Things have been a little busy and I’ve been earning my Tour Manager salary (for a change). We’ve just got back to the hotel from a really fun evening. We learned how to make Pizza, hand-on, and then ate the results. Turns out a glass of wine …
A guided tour of Rome this morning. The weather was a little schizophrenic with alternating sun and showers. Whenever it rains in Italy a small fleet of young men suddenly appear selling brollies for €5 so my clients can stay dry if they’ve forgotten protection. Our guide this morning was Monica and she was excellent. …
Short post today because it’s been really busy and I’m feeling a bit tired. We started the day with a regional train to Pisa where we had a guided tour. Our progress was initially impeded by a demonstration, taking place on one of the main bridges across the river Arno. I’m not sure what it …
We’ve been busy little bears since I last posted. We took the FrecciaRossa once again from Venezia to Firenze where we have settled in for a three night stay. On arrival we followed our Local Guide on a walking tour of the city before some free time and then dinner in a local restaurant. Firenze …
Continue reading "Firenze & Siena And Rubbing A Wild Boar For Luck"
Allora! So… we’re three days into this tour (the first two were travelling down from London to Venice via Turin. This blog post is a sort of mash-up of events from that period. On Sunday we set off on the 08:01am Eurostar and were in Turin just over 12 hours later. Turin is one of …
Continue reading "Cicchetti & The Return Of The Flying Tomato"
The header picture on this post was taken by one of my clients. It shows me staring, pensively out of the train window. Probably worrying whether we’ll make the next connection or not! I thought it captured something… What it is I’m not quite certain, but it’s something. Last day of the Swiss tour today. …
Today we took a boat trip on lake Lugano to visit the tiny fishing town of Gandria. The sun shone on my clients and it was a lovely day. Photo courtesy Mardy Brayman Photo courtesy Holly Hagen … and that’s Holly in person with Barry My clients have been very sweet today. At one time …
Continue reading "Lugano & on the passing of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II"
I took yesterday off from blogging. Sorry about that, but I was tired, and we were travelling on the glacier express which is the train so famous and well photographed it didn’t need much more from me. Today we picked up the Bernina express train running from Chur to Tirano in Italy. In my view …
What an amazing day. It started when two of my clients from Florida, Cynthia & Artemio Español woke up early to catch the sunrise on the Matterhorn. The resultant, remarkable series of photos makes the mountain glow like a molten gold ingot. Fabulous work Cynthia & Artemio! They are a little short of mountains in …
Continue reading "Gornergrat Railway (You really do want to see these pictures!)"
Just two trains today, from Montreux to Visp and then Visp to Zermatt. On arrival my clients have a free afternoon and evening and so they’ll be exploring this rather spectacular town. The mountains overlook and dominate everything, particularly the famous Matterhorn which was a little bit cloudy shrouded today. Tomorrow we travel on the …
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