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 …
Helene Lagrange
STGA Green Badge Assessment
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.
Autumn Training Stornoway Town Walk
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.
Iain Gillies
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 …
Iain McHardy
Hi I’m Ian McHardy and I am a professional Archaeologist. I have worked in mainland Scotland, Ireland, Africa and and Aotearoa/ New Zealand as well as here in Lewis since 2000. During this time I have been involved in many interesting and diverse projects; including …
Janis Brand
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
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
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 …
Esther Jamieson
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 …
Liz Carmichael
I am Liz Carmichael, a Green Badge Guide. Although not a native of Lewis I have lived here for 30 years. I came as a teacher in the Nicolson Institute, the secondary school on Lewis, not meaning to stay but ended up retiring and settling …