In 2020 the Outer Hebrides Guides are leading tours for over 50 cruise ships from the port of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. Tours featuring the ancient Neolithic landscape of Callanish and the Iron Age monument at Dun Carloway. Other must sees are the ancient Hebridean …
Hi there, I’m Helene and I welcome you to our website. I love guiding as I get to speak a lot about the islands. Here you get so close to living in the remains of history. The islands’ modern life is steeped in the remembrance of …
The Scottish Tourist Guides Association assessors came to Stornoway to assess nine guides for Green Badge Accreditation. The ‘Western Isles Green Badge’ is a NEW regional tourist guide qualification. The guides pictured by the ferry terminal were captured by Brian and Sergio representing STGA.
The Lews Castle and fishing nets frame this moment captured by Magz Macleod of Impact Imagz on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Outer Hebrides Tourist Guides training hard for next year’s busy season posed for a moment on the Stornoway Town Walk information session.
Very experienced tour guide, working mainly with cruise ship passengers, but also with coach tours, across the islands of Lewis and Harris. Born and raised in Ness in the north of the Isle of Lewis, I am a native Gaelic speaker, and have lived and …
I am Ian McHardy and I have been working as a professional Archaeologist since graduating from Glasgow University in 1999. I have worked in Scotland, Ireland and Aotearoa/ New Zealand before settling on the Isle of Lewis in 2005. Here in Lewis I have been …
My name is Janis Brand and I am a Green Badge Guide, guiding on the Isle of Lewis since 2015. I worked as a high school teacher of French and Spanish in Stornoway for 24 years after teaching English in Peru for seven years. At …
Ceit Crawford ran a successful Restaurant for some twenty years, featuring in ‘ Scotland the best ‘ for some years. As a fully trained Harris Tweed weaver, Ceit’s family roots are in Callanish where her Great Great Uncle’s helped clearing the peat from around the …
James Crawford trained as a Architectural & Engineering draughtsman in the Scottish Borders before coming to Lewis in 1974 were he has restored some eight vernacular structure’s leading him to become a Rural building instructor for the Lewis Castle College and Western isles Council. A …
I began guiding for Lewis and Harris tours from cruise liners calling into Stornoway in 2003, initially for German passengers, because I am Swiss as well as Scots, and therefore bilingual German/English, with a little French, Italian and Dutch thrown in 😊 I had good …
