Freelance Tour Manager for Rail Based vacations around the world
enigma noun [ C ] UK /ɪˈnɪɡ.mÉ™/ US /əˈnɪɡ.mÉ™/ something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely: Japan The dictionary doesn’t really mention Japan, but it might as well. I believe that you could live your entire life in this country and still never be fully on top of the intricacies, …
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Aaaaah… Sri Lanka. Have you ever had that thing where you’re in love with a place but when asked why, It’s tough to explain? When I see Sri Lanka on my upcoming list of Tours, I take quiet pleasure every time. It’s not easy explaining why, but I guess my job on this Blog is …
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India is a nation of contrasts and colours. Something that smells heavenly a yard away from something that doesn’t; wealth and poverty; beauty and ugliness; magnificence and crumbling concrete; old and new. I wanted to write about India as an experience, rather than as a sequence of remarkable sights. This is more difficult to say …
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I’ve been asked to write about China, and I’m currently staring at a blank page. How to write about the enigma that is China. Where do you start? Maybe the size? The 4th largest country in the world (9,596,960 sq km), bordering 14 countries. The rivers? The Yangtze, Yellow and Ob-Irtysh (me neither), not to …
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I’ve been working as a Tour Manager for just over 12 years, led over 100 Tours (think of it as being 3,000 people) and I like to think that by now I’ve more or less got the hang of it. I’ve led Tours world-wide and dealt with a raft of incidents of varying severity. I’ve …
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