Dear Readers:
I greatly appreciate your support, and the interest in my Lost French LA walking tour. I am deeply touched.
However...
All tours were postponed in March. A few people have, somehow, managed to purchase tour tickets anyway.
That isn't supposed to be possible with postponed events, and I have emailed Eventbrite about this three times now, without any response.
All tickets purchased for postponed events have been refunded, of course.
In order for tours to resume, the following criteria have to be met:
- LA County needs to fall into the orange or yellow tier, preferably yellow. Although I intend to restrict capacity to no more than 10 people (myself plus up to nine guests) until the pandemic is over, the tour does pass through the Plaza, which can be rather busy. I've heard it's quieter than normal right now, but it will pick back up. Angelenos have congregated there for 239 years, and probably always will. Also, the sidewalks aren't wide enough to distance properly.
- Additionally, while masks are helping slow the spread of COVID, they do interfere with my ability to lip-read. I need to be able to hear and/or understand my guests, and the traffic in the Plaza area can be too noisy for me to hear very much (hence reading lips).
- Some of this year's protests have, unfortunately, taken a violent turn. The tour route does pass fairly close to City Hall (often a target for protests). I have to be sure that my guests will be safe.
- The air quality needs to drastically improve. The ongoing presence of wildfire smoke has made it dangerously dirty.
One more thing: Eventbrite doesn't refund ticket fees. That means I have to eat them, and I just went back to my day job two weeks ago. So please, don't purchase a ticket YET (I will be back!).
I will definitely make an announcement when tours resume, or if I do another virtual tour via Zoom.
Merci,
C.C.
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