About Us at
Cornish Riviera Guides
Cornwall's leading partnership of
Blue Badge Tourist Guides
In addition to general guiding of coach and walking tours in and around Cornwall and Devon, Cornish Riviera Guides organise and lead all the highly successful themed walks for the annual Du Maurier Festival in Fowey.
Most of our members are also experienced Tour Managers who, as well as managing in-coming tours, regularly venture outside the South West to manage extended tours of the United Kingdom & the Continent. Hence we can literally cover (and have done !) the UK from Land's End to John o'Groats as well as the continent from Lourdes to EuroDisney, the Normandy beaches to the Spanish Costa and Keukenhof to the Alhambra !
Dawn, Malcolm, John, Nancy, Chrissie & Lynn
outside Fowey Church (in mid-December)
As you will see, each guide also has their own special interests and area of expertise so, between us, we can cater for just about every group requirement ... just ask us!
All our guides hold the Blue Badge - the highest qualification in tourist guiding - and are members of the Association of West Country Tourist Guides (the professional Association for Blue Badge Tourist Guides in the far South West) as well as being registered with the Institute of Tourist Guiding.
The person to contact!
Dawn is our administrator and general factotum. Her background is in tourism both running her own hotel then working at Fowey Tourist Information Centre with Lynn. Apart from general guiding, Dawn is also an experienced Tour Manager so regularly manages tours that both come into the South West and those that go from here to London, other parts of the UK, France & Spain.
Her interests include Cornish churches (their history and architecture as well as unusual memorials), myths and legends, literary connections and the gardens of Cornwall. Dawn is a past Chairman of the Association of West Country Tourist Guides, the professional association for Blue Badge Tourist Guides in the South West.
Malcolm Surl
Although his background is computing (since 19 …. er, well, when he had hair), Malcolm has been guiding groups around Devon & Cornwall for a number of years, in French as well as English. Malcolm is also an experienced Tour Manager, currently working for several leading tour companies on both in-coming and out-going extended tours ... to as far afield as the Far North of Scotland, Paris, Amsterdam, Tarragona and Wigan.
His special interests include railways, architecture, local and family history, horticulture and literary connections. Jointly with Dawn, he manages the cruise liner co-ordination agency operating as 'A' Team Tour Guides
John Philpott
After taking early retirement from a senior position in the public sector, John moved to Cornwall and trained as a guide. Although now living out of the area, John regularly returns to undertake both walking and coach tours.
His wide ranging interests have led him to regularly guide tours around historic York as well as Plymouth, Dartmoor and Cornwall.
Nancy Joliff
Having qualified as a BBG some twenty years ago, Nancy is one of the South West's most experienced guides.
She is noted not only for her walking tours of towns such as Fowey, Looe and Polperro but also for her talks and tours with themes like King Arthur, myths and legends, smuggling and curiosities.
Chrissie Jager-York
A former teacher and interpreter in both England and Holland, Chrissie qualified as a BBG in 1996 and mainly does in-coming or day excursion tours. She is fluent in Dutch and has worked for some years as a steward for the National Trust, principally at Lanhydrock House.
Her special interests include art, literature and country houses, and she holds several Blue Badge endorsements for these.
Lynn Goold
Lynn has a wealth of experience in the tourism industry having managed for many years both the Tourist Information Centre and the Daphne Du Maurier Centre in Fowey.
Noted for her walks and talks on the history of Fowey and the life and works of Daphne du Maurier, she was one of the instigators of the highly successful annual Daphne du Maurier Festival in South East Cornwall.
Lynn mainly guides walking tours, including extended tours of up to week, throughout Cornwall, and particularly its coastline.
The Blue Badge
was established over 50 years ago to ensure the highest standards of quality and professionalism in tour guiding in Britain.
It is your assurance of quality.
We at Cornish Riviera Guides take pride in constantly updating our knowledge, skills and linguistic abilities so that you, the visitor to the South West of England, will enjoy to the full the region's rich and varied heritage. As Cornwall's leading partnership of Blue Badge Tourist Guides, we will be delighted to help you plan as well as guide your tour - whether by coach, car, boat, helicopter, train or even on foot -
. . . . so just ask us !
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