Oxford is one of a handful of great tourist destinations in the United Kingdom. There is centuries of history in this city. It was the capital of England during the Civil War of the 17th century when King Charles I moved his court here. The colleges mak…
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Atlanta with Tim Richards. Travelbook
Atlanta is one of the USA’s most individual and characterful cities. It’s grown enormously in the last thirty years and has culture, history, style, good eating and great music venues. The history of the American Civil War adds to its appeal…
Washington, DC wit Tim Richards. Travelbook
Washington just oozes global power. You look at the Capitol building and know that it controls much of what the world does through military might, genuine democratic influence and commercial muscle. Washington has great museums, political institutions t…
Trip over New England with Tim Richards. Travelbook
New England has a very distinctive character quite unlike the Deep South or the West Coast of the USA. There’s more traditionally European architecture… wonderful forested countryside … rocky shorelines with pretty little fishing villa…
HELSINKI – laid back Baltic capital
Helsinki is an elegant, waterside city with charming woodland and parks and a wide range of architectural styles from the Russian era through to bold new buildings. There’s quality shopping too for Finnish design – and excellent eating. This…
Portsmouth – visit historic naval city with Tim Richards
First time tourists to Britain – once they’ve seen a bit of London usually head for cities like Bath, Oxford, Cambridge and York. Nothing wrong with them at all; but Portsmouth on the south coast of England has the history of the British nav…
Portsmouth – from Dickens to D-Day
Portsmouth is one of the UK’s great historic cities. Overseas tourists usually just think of London and Bath, Oxford and Cambridge. But in my view Portsmouth has some of the best historic sites in the country. We cover the Historic Naval Dockyard …
Los Angeles with Tim Richards. Travelbook
The Los Angeles area is one of the biggest conurbations in the world. The city of Los Angeles itself is small – but add in Santa Monica, Long Beach, Hollywood and all the separate cities and districts and you will be touring a giant. But it’…
Berlin – out to Potsdam, the Olympic Stadium and much more. Travelbook
In this tour Tim Richards will be using Berlin’s excellent railway system to get out to Potsdam where Cold War spies were exchanged; to Wannsee where the “final solution” was agreed; to Charlottenburg and its palaces; and in the city i…
Berlin – a fascinating walking tour with Tim Richards
This walking tour of Berlin with guide Torben Brown of Original Berlin Walks is probably the most complete and most interesting city tour I’ve ever taken. We covered all the main places from Berlin’s early history and through the growth of P…
Mississippi Road Trip: From Memphis to New Orleans with Tim Richards. Travelbook
This is a great 400-mile journey from the home of the Blues and Rock and Roll in Memphis… down through the Mississippi Delta country through historic Vicksburg and charming ante-bellum Natchez … and on to the home of Jazz in New Orleans. The…
NEW YORK CITY Uptown Art and Culture
This walk takes us northwards from 50th Street and to five of New York’s great cultural institutions – the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History. We start in St Patrick’s…
NEW YORK CITY Wall St to Washington Square
This tour covers the financial district of southern Manhattan and such iconic locations as the New York Stock Exchange and its Charging Bull statue. We move on through the memorials to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001 – …
New York City on the water
New York City is a bustling water-based city away from the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The Hudson, the East River, New York’s huge harbour link Manhattan to the other boroughs like Staten Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Out in the harbour ar…
NEW YORK CITY Midtown
Midtown New York is where all the world famous buildings are – the Empire State, the fabulous Art Deco Chrysler, Grand Central station and the United Nations headquarters.The district moves on northwards along Broadway through Times Square and up …
Budapest – Inner City Pest walk with Tim Richards
Budapest is a city that’s alive and bursting with energy again after the long, enforced slumber of the Communist years. Since the Iron Curtain finally rusted away Budapest has been moving up through the gears – well it does have a Formula One Grand …
Budapest – out along Andrassy Avenue
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is one of the most rewarding and inexpensive cities in Europe. It positively delights in its location on the banks of the wide River Danube. There are historic parts high above Buda – and a wealth of Art Nouveau o…
Budapest – history walk of Buda with Tim Richards
Budapest is one of the most attractive and interesting capital cities in Europe. It makes great use of its location on the Danube as it flows through Hungary. It has the impressive castle district high on a hill which is the historic heart of the city. …
Annapolis with Tim Richards
Annapolis was the capital of the USA long before Washington DC grabbed the glory. This is the maritime town where George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson lived and worked and drank in saloons well before independence. It’s not just a …
Vienna – walking at the heart of the Austrian Empire with Tim Richards
Vienna is a city with one of the grandest histories in Europe. Nowadays Austria may be a relatively small country – but before 1918 it was at the heart of a huge empire covering modern day Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and most of the Bal…