Our Mercedes V Class First of all, what is a Blue Badge Guide and what is a Driver Guide? A Blue Badge is the highest creditation for a professional tour guide in the United Kingdom. Such guides may study for years in order to achieve this status and even then it only covers the particular […]

We recently took a deep breath and invested in a top of the range 8-seater V Class Mercedes.   Our last private-hire vehicle was a 7-seater Volkswagen Sharan, which we bought in March 2020, just before the pandemic. We soon realised that this was bad timing as the poor thing was left depreciating in the

When you start reading about the events of WW2 in the British Isles, you frequently come across photos of the devastating aftermath of the bombing of London. You may also come across many photos from the invasion of Normandy. If Nazi forces could bomb London, which is about 70 miles away from the closest point

You may not realise that several of Ian Fleming’s original novels were set in England, and indeed in Kent. The truth of the matter is that the majority of the films do not follow the novels very closely, but if you are an aficionado of 007 and his creator, Ian Fleming, you may well be