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A tour guide who takes Beatles fans around Liverpool told how fans were stunned to see Sir Paul McCartney while waiting at traffic lights.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Historian and tour guide Alistair Heather said the commercialisation of the image in some parts of Glasgow had taken away its original meaning.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“We have thousands of problems and that is the reason why they are in the street. What happened in Zvernec was just the tipping point”, 46-year-old tour guide Arben Kola told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
“It was one of those places where something is always going wrong,” said Haley Berger, a former tour guide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
She walks us into the huge waiting area and leaves to get our tour guide for the day.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Many speeches and even tour-guide presentations start with a reminder that the soil on which the speaker and audience stand was once occupied only by indigenous people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
If you have an out-of-towner along, it’s almost your tour-guide duty to share this spectacle with them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Writing scripts for his tour-guide job sparked an interest in L.A. history, and drove Davis toward a synthesis of literary, historical and sociopolitical elements that would shape his writing career.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
In the book’s acknowledgments, she and Widmer, who taught for 16 years herself, thank “our many school-teacher and tour-guide friends, who have so generously offered to help us promote our history of New Orleans.”
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2022
The village in Mx was really interesting... according to our tour-guide, the village was destroyed by a flood a while back and then rebuilt.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2018
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