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The tour guide revealed it was not his first encounter with the star, having come across him when he used to work at the Cavern Club.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
It was “traumatizing, seeing that stuff on display for so long and then seeing it come down,” said James Ranger, a veteran hotel tour guide and Mission Inn Foundation docent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Zoe Stephens, a British citizen, has led groups to North Korea as a tour guide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
His teacher and the tour guide hadn’t noticed, but there was a ring of titters and pitying glances from his classmates.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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