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Blue Badge Tourist Guides have to learn all about St Paul’s Cathedral during their training. DAVID IILIF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Alan Payling finds out more about the masterminds that offer their services to the coach trade as Blue Badge Tourist Guides

We’ve all been there at one time or another. Heading towards a world-famous city like Bath, Edinburgh, Cambridge or London, tour drivers will endeavour to employ the services of a guide for a sightseeing tour so that the knowledge they will share with everyone on the coach can bring the visit to life. In some cases, the guide will also help the driver find their way around a city in which they would otherwise be totally lost. The alternative would be a short drive to the coach park and the passengers being left to their own devices.
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