OFFLINE FOR AGES
No, for my handful of readers (hello Paola) I have not given up blogging but have been offline for a while due to lack of internet access. It all be gan when I went into Carphone Warehouse to get my daughter's phone fixed and agreed to sign up for 'discount calls onyour landline'. I knew it was a mistake even as I did so and sure enough I lost my internet access and have only just got it back. The process would be as boring for me to explain as it was frustrating to experience.
Have just got back from working two weeks in Scotland. I have always said that London was the centre of the tourist industry but it seems that we are now expected to fly toDublin, Edinburgh or Glasgow to start a tour. people are now interested in exploring the Celtic fringes on tour and maybe doing England on their own. Although I was born in Africa I have always considered myself english, british, european in that order, supporting england in football (soccer) and rugby (whose supporters cal ltheir game football, just as Americans also regard their version as football plain and simple - even though those games involve far more use of the hands). This leads to Scots, and occasionally the Welsh (although v rarely the Irish) poking fun at the stiff upper lip english, like me. Will this stop if the Scots gain full independence? Doubt it somehow.
Scotland was fun and quite lucrative - certainly better to start there rather than trekking up from London.
It does seem curious to allocate a tour like this to someone obviously English, but we have to be prepared to go anywhere and take anybody to anyplace they want to see - and to make them feel involved and loved.
The irish are v good at this, far better than most other nationalities, yet the Scots are not so successful. We have tour directors from Ireland who are desperate to work 'at home' but are sent away to Britain because they do not have enough work there, yet Englishmen are shipped up to Scotland because there are not enough natives who are able/willing to do the job there. Curious...
Have just got back from working two weeks in Scotland. I have always said that London was the centre of the tourist industry but it seems that we are now expected to fly toDublin, Edinburgh or Glasgow to start a tour. people are now interested in exploring the Celtic fringes on tour and maybe doing England on their own. Although I was born in Africa I have always considered myself english, british, european in that order, supporting england in football (soccer) and rugby (whose supporters cal ltheir game football, just as Americans also regard their version as football plain and simple - even though those games involve far more use of the hands). This leads to Scots, and occasionally the Welsh (although v rarely the Irish) poking fun at the stiff upper lip english, like me. Will this stop if the Scots gain full independence? Doubt it somehow.
Scotland was fun and quite lucrative - certainly better to start there rather than trekking up from London.
It does seem curious to allocate a tour like this to someone obviously English, but we have to be prepared to go anywhere and take anybody to anyplace they want to see - and to make them feel involved and loved.
The irish are v good at this, far better than most other nationalities, yet the Scots are not so successful. We have tour directors from Ireland who are desperate to work 'at home' but are sent away to Britain because they do not have enough work there, yet Englishmen are shipped up to Scotland because there are not enough natives who are able/willing to do the job there. Curious...
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