Tours and Guides
From Chester Wiki
[edit] Walking Tours
Walking Tours depart every day at 10:30 every day of the year from Chester Tourist Information Centre in the Town Hall Square. This tour lasts one and a half hours it is a general history tour of the City. Other tours are available (pre-bookable) the choices include a tour where the guide is one of the few full-time Roman Soldiers in the UK. Tours can apparently be conducted in the following languages (with advance notice?):
- French: À la suite de la conquête de 1066..
- Italian: La città venne chiamata Legaceaster dai sassoni nei secoli successivi alla caduta dell'Impero Romano..
- Spanish: Una ciudad ubicada al noroeste de Inglaterra en la frontera de País de Gales..
- German: Nach der normannischen Invasion 1066 wurde Chester Castle als weitere Verteidigungsanlage gegen die Kelten gebaut..
- Japanese,
- Cantonese,
- Mandarin,
- Shanghai,
- Romanian,
- Russian: Честър е един от градовете в Англия с най-добре запазени стени..
- Dutch: Chester is de hoofdstad van Cheshire en ligt aan de rivier de Dee..;
- Welsh: Dinas yng ngogledd orllewin Lloegr a chanolfan weinyddol (tref sirol) Sir Gaer yw Caer..
- (no Latin then? - ecce homo per Ledo).
Tours include (please enquire for current prices) the following:
The incomparable Steve Howe also does several different guided walks (including a tour round pubs that are not there any more), Steve is probably one of the best-informed people on the planet about the history of Chester and runs the award winning Virtual-Stroll website.
Roman Tours - some of the only full time professional Romans in Britain and are available throughout the year, enduring the British climate with authentic clothing and equipment...vox vos horrendus parum vir..
Chester Guided Tours specialise in tours of the city and the Zoo.
[edit] Bus Tours
- Bus tour in a very old-fashioned bus. See Vintage Bus Tour for more info and links.
- another ad! (from the Irish Times)
- Busybus goes a little further afield
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