GUIDES • BUTTERFIELD & ROBINSON
Florian, Mario & Alex
Stefano, Lottie & Luca
AGUSTIN CALVETTI 50% anthropologist. 50% hôtelier. But also: restaurateur, trekking guide and polyglot. Oh, and blues guitarist. ALESSIO FRANGIONI Gifted carpenter. Restores aged Italian homes. Don’t need any cornices fixed? He’s also a trained veterinarian. (Handy when the camel breaks down.) ALEX GRAEFE Berliner who loves all things Tuscan. Spends his winters biking in New Zealand. ALEXIS MARCHAND Studied at the International Film School in Paris. Most recently, he filmed a four-month road trip from Brazil to Cuba, capturing all the beautiful moments (beautifully). ALICE VAN DER VOORT Can jabber away in six international tongues as though possessed. Works with schoolchildren in Laos. Dances on tables in Italy. ALVARO DIEZ Our super-athletic Spaniard. Member of his university triathlon team. Has run more marathons than anyone can remember. AMANDA GARY Now based in Buenos Aires, this multi-talented native of Malibu, California has guided more than 20 trips in Europe and South America. AMINA ABDELJAWAD Six-language-speaking Swedish adventureseeker. Loves to get down. Not just to the depths of Lake Malawi (she’s a seasoned diver), but on the dance floors of Andalucia, too. ANGELO SCIMIA Has been spotted in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, London and his native Italy. Still unknown: the top-secret gourmet restaurant he manages. ANTHONY KING Windsurfer. Marathon runner. Free-diver. Forest trekker. Around-theworld cyclist. Suspected adrenaline junkie. ANTHONY WEERSING Dwells in Hawaii living out the American dream, occasionally escaping to Japan. Still gets giddy about Japanese culture and cuisine. CHRIS GOODWIN Decided he’d rather be scaling Table Mountain than playing solitaire in a plush corner office. Many B&R trips later, still terrible at solitaire. (There’s a lesson in this.) CHRISTINA NICK Rehabilitating cheetahs in northern Namibia. Or showcasing her world-renowned sculpture at an art show in Hungary. Or... CHRISTOPHER LITT Stir-crazy cyclist. Has ridden clear across Canada. Conquered roads in
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France and Switzerland. Former pedicab driver. Don’t tell him we told you. DANA QUINN A high-octane consultant in her former life. Many B&R trips later, she’s savouring the slightly slower life in southern France. DANE TREDWAY Wandered from Cape Town to Kathmandu. Returned to Toronto for a life of writing and photography. (Also: spelunking, skiing, scuba diving, trekking.) DANIEL BOWER Biked, snowboarded, scuba dived, mountaineered, bunjee jumped and Frisbeecompeted across six continents. DARIUS ARJANG Swaps teaching for guiding each summer. Can whip up the notoriously finicky Sachertorte on command. DAVID FACCHINI Italian-born David has worked on humanitarian projects across the globe. When he’s not changing the world, he’s changing gears on a bike. A true buona forchetta! DEBBIE VANVAERENBURGH Just finished a oneyear trip through Moscow, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia. Her fave part? Teaching English to monks in Laos. DENIS LUCCANTONI Former Olympian. Still has that golden glow. Spends the winters speed skating, teaching skiing in the French Alps, and being impossibly downto-earth. DIEGO GRAU Hails from a small Castilian town. Left a career in biology to join B&R. Says gushy, poetic things like “I found the pure happiness that the path brings you.” DOMINIC GIOSSAN Renaissance man (and possessor of five degrees). Can say “Holy @#$%! Look at that bear!” in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. DORA BARTA Has a Master’s degree in English Philology (no, that’s not a typo). The Hungarian native is a global nomad who now calls Spain home (we think). ERIC SPONSELLER Has worked with HIV/ AIDS affected kids in Lesotho, baked bread in NYC, and run a successful artisan kombucha business in South Africa. We just had to have him. ERNESTO FUCCI Has a Master’s in diplomatic relations (it shows). When he not working for the Italian Cultural Institute, you can find him guiding for us in Europe. ERIN REED Veteran guide. Coined the classic B&R motto: “When you’re charged by a giraffe
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