A Guide to Leeuwarden is a company that is founded in 2013 by Henk Leutscher. Nowadays we are with a full team of enthusiastic and young guides that love to show the beauty of Leeuwarden. We do this every week with public Free Tours, but also with customized private tours. Because we believe that the best introduction to Leeuwarden is a personal tour with a guide. Meet our team below!
Our Guides
Henk is the founder of A Guide to Leeuwarden. He moved to Leeuwarden in 2001 to study history. After finishing his degree he left Leeuwarden twice to travel the world for a year but he always came back. In 2013 he set up A Guide to Leeuwarden. Henk does all the tours of A Guide to Leeuwarden and is also guide in the Fries Museum.
Christina grew up in a small town between Berlin and Hamburg and moved to Leeuwarden a few years ago to study Human Resource Management. She really liked the atmosphere of the city, so she decided the stay. Christina has a big passion for helping, inspiring and coaching people and since the summer of 2016 she shows Leeuwarden on an enthusiastic way in German, English or Dutch. She’s also a guide in the Fries Museum..
Kevin has been a guide at A Guide to Leeuwarden since the beginning of 2017. Being half English himself, he can give tours in Dutch, but he enjoys the English tours the most. Due to his background as an improvisation actor at the Leeuwarden Man met Snor he adds his theatrical flair to the tours by telling historical stories that capture the imagination.
Charlotte is born in Austria and moved to Leeuwarden to study Animal Management in 2010. Besides her knowledge about animals and nature, she also knows her way around Leeuwarden. She is a guide at A Guide to Leeuwarden since the summer of 2015 and she is happy to show you Leeuwarden on the Leeuwarden Tour, the Street Art Tour or the Beer Tour. While German is her mother language, she can also show you around in English or Dutch. She’s also a guide in the Fries Museum.
Zenon grew up in a Frisian town and moved to Leeuwarden in 2011. He tried different jobs to find out what he wanted to do, and decided to study business economics. Because he loves working with people just as much as working with numbers. In the beginning of 2018 he started giving tours in English, Dutch and Frisian.
Leonie is from Drenthe and came to Leeuwarden when she was 18. She teaches History in secondary school, but would also like to express her passion for history in other ways.
Therefore, since 2022, she has also been taking people around the city to tell, amaze and share. She also works as a guide at the Fries Museum and the Princessehof ceramics museum.
Jaike was born and raised on an old seawall in the North of Friesland. In 2016 she exchanged the dike for the city. In Leeuwarden she completed her study to become a Fine Art Teacher and has been working as a guide in the Frisian Museum and Ceramic Museum Princessehof since 2017. She has also been guiding people around the city since 2020. As a real Frisian, she can tell everything about Leeuwarden and the surrounding area, not only in Frisian, but also in Dutch, English and German.
Marcel became a guide at A Guide to Leeuwarden in the beginning of 2017. He is our only born and raised Leeuwarder. He moved to Groningen and Barcalona to study Roman Languages and Culture. And later also got his degree in English. Since the end of 2016 he returned to his old hometown. Besides being a guide he works as a Spanish and English teacher. It’s no wonder that he likes to do walking tours in Dutch and those two languages.
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