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Check out my Dark Chester tour via the new Kayak Chester travel guide

My Dark Chester tour resumes this week after a winter break.

I’m back with new ideas, fresh takes on Chester folk tales and plenty of fire-and-brimstone dark-tourism heritage from my historic home city.

I’m also up for new collaborations and editorial coverage, including being featured in the new Chester guide from travel search engine, Kayak.

Look out for news and updates over the weeks to come.

Meanwhile, read the Kayak Chester Travel Guide here.

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Dark Chester named finalist in the Marketing Cheshire Tourism Awards

 

It’s official: Dark Chester has been named as a finalist at the Marketing Cheshire Tourism Awards.

The dark-tourism walking tour of the heritage city of Chester received the nod as a finalist for Experience of the Year.

It picked up a second nomination for New Tourism Business of the Year.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony at Chester Cathedral on March 21, 2024.

Meanwhile, Dark Chester tours continue weekly over Halloween with a special event on October 26.

Dark Dinner is a collab with the King’s Kitchen at the Brewery Tap, Chester, including a walking tour of the city, then a two-course menu with added spooky stories.

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More information from The Brewery Tap.

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Bookings open for Dark Chester special tours for the Chester Heritage Festival

Dark Chester / Chester Heritage Festival specials — bookings are now open

I’ll be leading a couple of special walking tours of Chester next month for the Chester Heritage Festival (CHF).

Bookings are now open and spaces are limited.

Book Dark Chester: Spooks & Stories (June 17) at https://lnkd.in/eEajidex.

Book Dark Chester: Ales & Tales (June 24) at https://lnkd.in/erPbc9NN.

So, join me in June and let’s take a walk on the dark side.

For details of other Chester Heritage Festival (CHF) events, then the full listing here.

How ghost stories reveal the dark reality of life for Yorkshire’s ancient monks

A Halloween trip to the North Yorkshire Moors this autumn.

I took a trip back through time to Rievaulx Abbey [pictured above] to try a new ghost-story-inspired tour of English Heritage properties.

Revenants and Remains is a 90-minute walking tour of five monastic sites across the North of England, ranging from Cumbria to North Yorkshire.

The idea is to peer into the supernatural shadows, using ghost stories to shine light into the darker corners of the medieval sites.

Here’s a sample of the story:

The resident monks drew on ancient beliefs and local folk legends to compile a series of ghost stories, fused with medieval mysticism and the hellfire-brimstone of the Holy scriptures. The tours interpret these stories to explain the symbolism of the medieval belief system, a world dominated by terrifying tales of the afterlife and spooky stories of the undead.

Tour leader, Dr. Michael Carter, Senior Properties Historian at English Heritage, said:

“The stories reveal the lives of medieval monks were epitomised by a constant state of moral vigilance for the sin-stained souls of their patrons, easing their path to Paradise.”

Read the full story via i Travel, The ghost stories and medieval ruins that shaped the North York Moors