Private tours with David Appleyard, qualified guide for Wales, Chester and Liverpool.
Wales Blue Badge • Liverpool Blue Badge • Chester Green Badge
A private tour is not simply about reaching a destination. It is about spending time with someone who can help you understand what you are seeing: the people, places and stories that shaped it.
David's tours combine historical interpretation, storytelling and conversation, with each day shaped around your interests, pace and questions.
Wales Blue Badge Guide • Liverpool Blue Badge Guide • Chester Green Badge Guide
North Wales, Chester and Liverpool are regions shaped by geography, conflict, trade and identity.
These tours connect those stories, helping visitors understand not just what they are seeing, but why it is there.
Each tour offers a distinct way of understanding the region — through landscape, history, and the forces that connect them.
Understand how landscape, power and identity shaped North Wales, from medieval castles to the communities that still carry those stories today.
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Trace Chester's layers of history with a guide who connects the Roman fortress, medieval city and modern streets into one clear story.
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Explore how trade, migration, maritime history and culture shaped Liverpool's identity as one of Britain's great port cities.
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A private tour shaped around your interests, connecting places, themes and questions into a day that feels considered and personal.
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Qualified across North Wales, Chester and Liverpool, providing continuity across a region that many visitors explore as a single journey.
Tours are built around conversation, storytelling and interpretation, helping visitors connect places with people, events and ideas.
Every tour is private and adapted to individual interests, pace and questions, creating a flexible and personal experience.
Recommended by visitors, tour operators and fellow guides, with professional roles across several guiding organisations.
Visitors often comment on David's knowledge, storytelling and ability to make places easier to understand.
Knowledge
"Our guide David was well versed in history and politics. Visit to Chester was everything we hoped for."
Storytelling
"Top notch! Great tales of legends and myths, and interesting details both coming and going."
Personal Attention
"Great insight, history and points of interest. Many photo stops too. Really well done."
Memorable Experience
"This was one of our favourite excursions of the entire trip."
Start a conversation about your visit, and we’ll shape the day around you.
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