Pepe Martinez is a London Blue Badge* Tourist Guide. He and several of his Blue Badge colleagues are offering a new season of twenty ‘Virtual Tours’ on Zoom, starting on Tuesday 19^th October.  The tours will take place on Tuesdays at 10.30am and on Thursdays at 2pm. They will last a little over an hour, with time for questions afterwards. The sessions last a maximum of 90 minutes. As usual, recordings will be available. The guides film what they see as they walk and also use photographs. (Bear in mind that, as tourist guides, they are used to talking to groups which include people who may not know England well.)
NOTE: Links to the tours will be sent each Thursday afternoon for the following week, together with the links to recordings of the current week’s live tours. The recordings will remain available until the end of January 2022.

*The Blue Badge is the highest qualification attainable for tourist guiding in Britain. Students have a two-year training which includes four written and seven practical exams. All the guides have completed a Virtual Tours training which has been approved by the Institute of Tourist Guiding.

SCHEDULE
19^th October: Putting on the Ritz – London’s Luxury Hotels
21^st October: More Lost Palaces of London
26^th October:  Love and Lovers of the Ancient World
28^th October:  Bohemians in Bloomsbury
2^nd November: Guy Fawkes – Son of York
4^th November: Remember Remember the 5^th of November
9^th November:  The Queen’s Diamonds
11^th November:  The Final Journey of the Unknown Warrior
16^th November:  The Wonders of The Wallace Collection
18^th November:  Shakespeare’s Stratford    
23^rd November: London and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
25^th November: (to be confirmed)
30^th November:  Elizabethan Artists in the City
2^nd December:  Hampstead Garden Suburb
7^th December:  The Wonderful City of Bath
9^th December:  Thackeray and Trollope in London
14^th December:  The History of Broadcasting in London
16^th Dec ember: Breaking the Coade – The Story of the Coade Stone
21^st December: By Royal Appointment – The Story of the Royal Warrant
23^rd December: Banksy – Fraud or Genius

COST
Existing Members:
One Viewer – £40
Two Viewers – £55 (same household)
Non-Members:
One Viewer – £50
Two Viewers – £65 (same household)

TO BOOK
Control + click on the link below and use red button “Buy Membership of Season Three here” (choice will be given for both Non-Members and Existing Members). NB Also note “Click HERE for frequently asked questions” and at bottom of the page “Contact the event organizer”.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bluebadgepremiumvirtualtours/566503?utm_source=Blue+Badge+Premium+Virtual+Tours&utm_campaign=6fd715ad1e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_26_2020_11_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a001ef1eee-6fd715ad1e-433509007