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.
Discover how landscape, castles and Welsh identity shaped North Wales, from medieval princes to modern communities.
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Understand how Roman, medieval and modern Chester fit together through its walls, Rows, cathedral and streets.
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Explore the city that connected Britain to the wider world through trade, migration, music and maritime history.
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Spend a day exploring the places and stories that interest you most, with an itinerary shaped around your questions.
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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 and professional contacts often comment on David's knowledge, storytelling, organisation and ability to make places enjoyable and easy to understand.
Visitor Experience
"Friendly, knowledgeable and passionate about Welsh history and culture."
North Wales visitor feedbackProfessional Recommendation
"Professional, organised, knowledgeable and a real pleasure to work with."
James Garnett, Zing Tours and fellow guideOperator Trust
"Guest feedback was phenomenal."
Tour operator feedbackStorytelling
"His flow and enthusiasm was excellent, with an added dash of humour."
Chester visitor feedbackDavid also gives illustrated talks for U3A, WI, Rotary, Probus, local history societies, libraries and community groups, bringing the stories of North Wales, Chester, Liverpool and professional guiding into the meeting room.
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