Tired of reading long and confusing guidebooks? Keep those books aside and follow the guide. Taking the best guided city walking tours in great cities like New York, Romer, London, Paris, Dublin and more will surely make your visit worthwhile. You have read correctly, take a walking tour for these major tourist cities. There are other ways of exploring the city instead of taking a walking tour, an example of that is the iPod tours, the guidebook, and the likes, but even if these are the less expensive methods, there are still some places/things that you wouldn't see unless you are with an experienced guide. The walking tour does not only concern places that are considered as 'a must see' the guides also provides some 'did you know' facts along the tour which makes the tour more interesting than reading, walking, and asking for directions all at the same time.
Wherever you may go there will always come a time where Mother Nature would play its role. Yes, it is rain, any tourist would not want their perfectly organized trip to be ruined by some rainstorm or any other natural calamity. One good experience with guides is that they are prepared for whatever may happen during the tour. There was this time when it rained hard during the tour at Dickens' London. The guide acted out some scenes from Dickens until rain had passed, even though the trip was a little bit delayed because of the rain, the guide made sure that time was used wisely. Since the guides are long-time residents in the area, you would be able to enjoy every part of the tour. There would be no problems on where you should go to fully appreciate the city's beauty. There are a lot of things that a guide would know than an iPod/guidebook would, one of these are enticing alleys and shortcuts that would definitely make you cover much more places to see rather than wasting time asking every corner for directions.
On the French Revolution Walk in Paris, you could go down a narrow street of small shops and tearooms and then head to the front of Le Procope, a highly rated cafe where Voltaire, Robes pierre, Marat, Ben Franklin and others often met to confer about liberty and the rights of man just before the French Revolution. You would be able to pass by the building where Marat, the editor of L'Ami du Peuple, printed the people's newspaper during the Revolution. The inventor of the grisly machine, Dr. Guillotine are one of those places that most of the guides are very familiar with. Some other facts such as the house where Marat was stabbed to death in the bathtub by a Royalist meddler Charlotte Corday can be more appreciated with a gui\de by your side.
Many famous literary pubs in Dublin one of which is Davy Byrne's are in and around Duke street. In that area lines from James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" are enrypted in small plaques on the sidewalk. Tommy Graham, director and founder of Historical Insights in Dublin says his guides "are certainly striving to offer some 'insights' into Irish society through the means of history." South of the Liffey River can be found the Trinity College, where Jonathan Swift, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and many other distinguished people studied. While at the Georgian Merrion Square, with it rows of tantamount houses, each with four stories of dark red bricks, black shutters, and gas lights, lies a colorful statue of Oscar Wilde lounging on a rock on one corner. These places may or may not be stated in every guidebook or audio guides, these are just some of the advantages of having a resident guide help you with your stay in the city.
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