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Back Issues of
The Kettle
Later Start Days
For people who don’t want to start their day out too early
If starting a tour at 10.30am doesn’t suit you consider
booking a trip as a
Later Start Option
.
Instead of arriving at 10.30am you can meet the tour
guide at 11.45am/noon and start your day out with
an early lunch. This is the best option for groups who
don’t want to set out during the rush hour and it is also
a good idea to solve the thorny problem of drivers
hours for many groups. On a Later Start Day the
driver can drop you for lunch and then have time to
park up for an hour or more.
The Later Start Option
is available across the board,
including our Together Tour itineraries where, instead
of starting with morning coffee you arrive for an early
lunch at midday and the cup of coffee is still included
in the tour fee but is served after your lunch.
Later Start Days cover all the core itinerary points as
described in the tour description. The order of events
may differ but not the tour content and you don’t head
home much later than on a standard tour. Usually it’s
a matter of heading for home about 30 minutes later
than on an ordinary start day.
Our Blue Badge Guides
Our guides have the Blue Badge – the highest guiding
qualification in the UK. The Blue Badge course is
always over-subscribed and is very demanding, with
a terrifying range of written and practical examinations.
Not everyone passes, not by a long chalk. And not
everyone who passes has the right blend of skills to
be a guide with City & Village Tours.
Beyond and above the knowledge we also require
kindness, patience, warmth, a sense of humour and the
ability to be heard clearly, especially by older folk.
It’s a critical mix of skills that our regular groups
recognise instantly. And it is an award-winning mix –
we have received ten awards for the best guided tours
in the country.
There are over 1500 holders of the Blue Badge in the
UK but there are only 30 guides in the City & Village
Tours team. It’s no lottery when you book a day out
with City & Village Tours. You are going to get a great
guide every time.
The Kettle
was first published in January 2012.
You can read all of the back issues by clicking the
links at the bottom of the email that delivered this
issue or by going to
The Kettle
page on our website.
Past topics for the lead article include The Thames
Watermen, A History of History on the Television,
Good at Parks, Opening Ceremonies from Babylon
to Boris Johnson and Fish & Chips – the story of an
iconic British dish.
Each issue also includes ideas for days out that your
group can do on their own.