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Thomas Carter

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29th September 2016 Guatemala City

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by Thomas Carter

British Ambassador to Guatemala

Travels in Guatemala, Part 2

Tikal As offered, this is the second part of the blog about the adventures we had on holidays in Guatemala, hope you enjoy! The following day we drove up through Flores (a really delightful town on its compact little island in lake Peten Itza) and on to Tikal.  Tikal is the jewel of all Mayan […]

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22nd September 2016 Guatemala City

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by Thomas Carter

British Ambassador to Guatemala

Travel through Guatemala

Guatemala is blessed with a huge diversity of tourist sites.  Best known are the charming Spanish-colonial city of Antigua, the stunning Mayan ruins of Tikal, and the beautiful volcano-ringed lake of Atitlan.  But it also boasts some other remarkable but less known sites, which draw significant number of discerning travellers – and especially young backpackers.  […]

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14th September 2016 Guatemala City

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by Thomas Carter

British Ambassador to Guatemala

Thinking of Democracy

As a public servant and as a Briton, to talk about democracy is to talk about something I am passionate about.  It’s not that I am an expert in the topic, but it is a system with which I can identify closely and it is an ideal which drives every day of my working life.  […]

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About Thomas Carter

Tom Carter arrived in Guatemala in August 2015. This is his second ambassadorial job, the first being as British High Commissioner to Zambia (2008 to 2012). Tom worked on the…

Tom Carter arrived in Guatemala in August 2015. This is his second ambassadorial job, the first being as British High Commissioner to Zambia (2008 to 2012). Tom worked on the London 2012 Olympic Games, and was until recently in charge of the FCO’s global consular policy, working out of London. He has spent much of his career in Europe (France, Germany and Slovakia), but also in Colombia and Thailand. Tom is married to another career diplomat, Carolyn Davidson, with whom he shared the job in Zambia and who is now British Ambassador to Honduras. They have two teenage sons.

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