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History Hunter Tours
The tourist office and Chester Visitors' Centre offer a broad range of walking tours departing from both centres. Each tour lasts between 1½ and two hours. History hunter explores two thousand years of Chester history.
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Leo Pretelli
English-speaking with an infectious joie de vivre, Leo is like your long-lost Umbrian uncle who knows every tiny off-the-beaten-path restaurant and viewpoint. Perfect for a designated driver at Umbria's 40-plus wineries.
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Solei Tours
This very efficient organisation can book accommodation and transport tickets but is known for multiday excursions into remote Moldova, taking in monasteries and places of interests and incorporating rural homestays.
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Many local operators organise tours to the ruins along the coast west of Alanya and to Anamur. Different tours include tours to Aspendos, Side and Manavgat or a village-visiting jeep safari into the Taurus Mountains.
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Euro-Tour
Euro-Tour does excellent three-hour tours of the battlefield where Peter the Great’s army defeated the Ukrainian Cossacks under Ivan Mazepa and their Swedish allies in 1709. Also does city tours.
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Ecco Siena
Runs city tours for groups and individuals. Group tours Monday to Saturday, March to October take around two hours and leave from outside the Chiesa di San Domenico at 15:00. Reserve at Siena Hotels Promotion.
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Corneliu Serban
Corneliu Serban, a local guide, offers personalised city tours for around €100 for two people; he witnessed the 1989 Revolution and can give plenty of insider's observations. Call for more information.
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Incoming Alentejo
This outfit offers daily tours to the megaliths near Évora (three hours), the village of Monsaraz (3½ hours), and less frequently to Alqueva (3½ hours), which includes a 30-minute boat ride.
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Galimard
Galimard, 3km from Grasse centre on the southbound N85, runs a nearby Studio des Fragrances where you can create your own unique fragrance, and a flower distillery in Gourdon, La Source Parfumée.
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Jazz Tour
Jazz fans can explore the city's rich jazz past with a Jazz Tour, which includes a two- to three-course dinner with wine and entrance into two to three clubs. It is run by the Danish Jazz Union.
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Eteri Jorjoliani
Most homestays can arrange guides and jeep transport. An experienced and well-recommended English-speaking guide here, both for hikes and for visits to Svaneti's churches, is Eteri Jorjoliani.
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Ghost Tours
Every city has its ghost tour, and Copenhagen is no exception. Ghost Tours operates a 1½-hour walking tour of the city centre, leaving from Nyhavn at 20:00. Advance booking only.
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Cityrama
Cityrama offers three-hour city tours including several photo-op stops. These cost from 6500Ft per adult, while children under 12 or 14 are charged between 3000Ft and 3250Ft.
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Mazurkas Travel
Warsaw’s major tour operator with morning sightseeing tours (140zł per person) of the city plus trips to Kraków, Gdańsk and Białowieża.
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Mendes & Murteira
Operating out of the Barafunda boutique, this company offers flexible three- to four-hour tours (price negotiable) of surrounding megaliths or around the city itself.
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Velotaxi
Velotaxi offers a 20-minute, two-person tour of the Altstadt in a rain-protected pedicab. Order by phone or look for one at Rathausplatz or Münsterplatz.
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Dewa Roman Experience
The Dewa Roman Experience, just off Bridge St, takes you through a reconstructed Roman street with the aim of showing you what Roman life was like.
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Salisbury City Guides
Salisbury City Guides leads 1½-hour tours from the tourist office. There are also themed walks on Saturday and a ghost walk on Friday night.
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Altstadt Tour
The Potsdam tourist office runs the two-hour Altstadt Tour. Tours are in English and German and tickets are available at the tourist office.
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Prost! Beer & Food tour
Prost! Beer & Food tour . A three-hour introduction to Bavarian drinking culture but not a pub crawl. Tours leave from Marienplatz.
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Guided Tours
The tourist office runs English-language guided tours that depart from the Löwenbrunnen (Lions Fountain) at Universtätsplatz.
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Travel Agency
The efficient Klaudia Petrivna runs the show at the Prydesnyasky Hotel Travel Agency. She personally guides city tours in English.
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Syrako Tourist Services
Syrako can help you arrange guides and runs good tours, from classical to baroque itineraries, around the Neapolis and Ortygia.
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Île Rousseau
Start a scenic walk through the old town at the Île Rousseau, home to a statue in honour of the celebrated freethinker.
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Granavisión
Offers guided tours of the Alhambra and Generalife, and Historic Granada tours. Phone direct or book through a travel agent.
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