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LIVE-streamed and Virtual Travel Events with Expert Guides
See the world through our window! Join us for interviews, walking tours, classes and virtual travel with our local experts from around the world. Some events are free, others must be reserved and paid ahead. Check listings for details and links. Tour costs must be paid directly to guides. All times are PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (ie Seattle/Los Angeles) but confirm time with your guide.
Live-Stream Events: These are events in the wild, where guides roam naturally amongst their habitats, streamed live on Zoom, Facebook Live, or YouTube Live, with active participant interaction.
Virtual Tours: These events are prerecorded video and images combined with live commentary and active participant discussion.

GC Presents | St. Andrew
Join Helen Houston for this private Zoom presentation as she shares the importance of Saint Andrew in the Scottish culture.

Scotland Central and West Virtual Tour
Charlie Rawson takes you on a virtual guided tour through picturesque Scotland. Learn about Scottish identity, landscapes, historic rivalries, classic Scottish literature, ancient cultures, and modern passageways.

CHristmas candy from Spain
Nougat, turrone, turrón, Christmas candies..., who cares how to call it as long as they are the favorite thing to eat at this time of the year!!
From one of the best shops in town and with wonderful flavors, you will see the varieties presented and history about this product. Join Jorge Roman on a Xmas sweet tour.

Journey Well
Join Guide Collective’s Managing Editor Trish Feaster (The Travelphile) for a fun an fascinating conversation with tour guides and hosts of the Eastern Approaches podcast, Andrew Villone and Ben Curtis.

The Cotswolds & Bath
Tour Guide Charlie Rawson leads a virtual tour through the picturesque Cotswolds and historic Bath and includes iconic sites, quaint and grand architecture, and traditional pubs.

Armistice day in Scotland
At just after 5am on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, a treaty was signed that would bring the hostilities of WWI to an end at 11.00am that same day. A year later the tradition of a two minute silence to reflect and remember at 11.00am on Armistice Day was introduced.
Join Liz Lister in a emotional walk at 11:00am on the 11th day of the 11th month and conmemorate the end of WWI

Guy Fawkes Night
Join Scottish tour guide Liz Lister for the story behind Guy Fawkes and why every year across the UK bonfires are lit and the sky lights up with fireworks.

All Saints from Spain
Tour guide Jorge Roman will give an insight on how important is All Saints Day in Spain. Also National Holiday this year happens to be on a Sunday. Will be busy as the religion traditions is still rooted in Spain’s culture.

Art That Lasts: Mathias Grünewald’s Altar Piece
Join art historian and tour guide Daniela Wedel as she explores one of the most complex art pieces of the 16th century, Mathias Grünewald’s Isenheimer Altar Piece located in the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, This late Gothic German oeuvre has been described as fantastically strange, exceptionally powerful, intriguing and at the same time cruelly repulsive.

A Traditional Hallowe’en in Scotland
Join us for a Live Stream Event as Trish Feaster chats with Liz Lister about traditional Hallowe’en activities and the history of All Hallows Eve in Scotland.
Scottish Highland Dance Culture in the United States
Join Juliet Romano-Olsen, our amazing and talented intern at Guide Collective, for a lecture and demonstration of her longtime passion and sport of Scottish Highland Dance. It will include a brief history of Highland Dancing and Scottish culture in the US as well as her personal journey as a competitive dancer for 15 years.

Auckland and Devonport, New Zealand
Join tour guide Colin Mairs in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland. Take a walk through one of the iconic suburbs of and one of Colin’s favourite places—Devonport, Auckland.

Scotland Virtual Tour
Charlie Rawson takes you on a virtual guided tour through picturesque Scotland. Learn about Scottish identity, landscapes, historic rivalries, classic Scottish literature, ancient cultures, and modern passageways.

Madrid and Columbus Square
Join Spanish Tour guide Jorge Roman for a walking tour near Plaza de Colón (Columbus Square) in Madrid and learn about Hispanic Heritage, the religious point of view of the Catholic Festivity of Our Lady of Pilar, Patroness saint of Spain.

Scotland Virtual Tour
Charlie Rawson takes you on a virtual guided tour through picturesque Scotland. Learn about Scottish identity, landscapes, historic rivalries, classic Scottish literature, ancient cultures, and modern passageways.

Cotswolds & Bath Virtual Tour
Tour Guide Charlie Rawson leads a virtual tour through the picturesque Cotswolds and historic Bath and includes iconic sites, quaint and grand architecture, and traditional pubs.