GUIDES • BUTTERFIELD & ROBINSON
Gerardo
Sakis & Erin
Amanda
on the slow road for years, whether riding his bike across continents or sailing around the Med. Managed to learn four languages along the way. NANCY TOWNS Lovable Spanish-speaking Hispanophile. Claims in a convincing tone that she loves biking Albanian mountain roads. In the winter. NIKOLAUS SIGRIST Nikolaus’ two-wheeled adventures have seen him guide in Germany, cycle from Vienna to Belgrade, and bike almost every inch of Cuba. OSCAR BIEDMA The kind of athlete who pedals out of a Vancouver driveway one morning and ends up in Mexico. All of our guides are “avid”… Oscar is more like “ravenous.” PAOLO MARAGLIULO Native of Puglia. Came to guiding the old fashioned way: a failed basketball career. Now a worldly genius who works in British theatre. RAFA PRIETO MARTIN Born in Spain. First word was aventura. (Repeated in German, English, Italian, Portuguese, French and Japanese.) Now lives the hard life on Brazilian beaches. REMI LAHAUSSOIS Sculptor. Winemaker. Homebuilder. Musician. Triathlete. Stop us at any time, Remi. RICHARD NUCCI King of the Alpine glaciers. Brilliant mountain trekker. Has organized bike expeditions all over Scandinavia and Europe. Obviously our soulmate. RICCARDO PASQUIN Born in a Venetian village. Wandered through Ireland, Bolivia and Portugal. Party trick: getting teary-eyed about il bel paese (the beautiful country). SAKIS MITSOULIS Master’s in fine art. Happily steeped in the finer things in life (probably how he ended up in the luxe boating industry). Eat very, very well when you’re with Sakis. SARAH LEWIS Master’s from the London School of Economics. Fluent in five languages. Has visited more countries than a diplomat. SCOTT MCEWEN Ditched a career in Canadian television to pursue cinema at the Sorbonne. And work with UNESCO. And conquer the Alps. SEBASTIAN ROMERO Our resident filmmaker and photographer extraordinaire. Native of Germany. Always one drink away from flopping down on the mountain to make snow angels. SEBASTIAN VAUTELIN
This natural born leader has done everything from teach primary school to start his own business and play the trumpet professionally. Talk about great chops. SJOERD VINK Born in southern Holland. Grew up on a bike. (It’s practically dictated by law there.) Less mandatory: becoming a hot yoga master. Just for fun: a degree from the Royal Academy of Art. SONIA TER HOVANESSIAN Our favourite Franco-Armenian jazz singer / classical flautist / budding photographer. Now calls Bologna home. Can serenade you in Italian. Yes, you will swoon. STEPHANIE GULLEDGE Has journeyed through Europe, South America and Asia on two wheels, but has been hinting (heavily) that she has a hankering for more mohinga in Myanmar. STEPHANO LOPEZ A native of Florence, he has travelled extensively in Europe, though his most recent adventure involved Grizzly bears in the Yukon. TATIANA BRISOLLA Brazilian. Biologist. Massage therapist. Proud new resident of France. Yoga teacher. Cyclist. We could go on. TABITA MIOTTO When this Northern Italian is not guiding for B&R, she’s either shaving off a few strokes from her golf game or tackling new hills on her bike. THILO ERHARDT B&R’s in-house chameleon. Throw him in the sea? He becomes an expert diver. Send him to the European Space Agency? He walks out with a job. A German Parisian everything. THOMASE FRIESE Has guided B&R travellers through Italy and central Europe for precisely a decade. Has no plans of stopping. Not that we’d let him. TIBOR BARNA Teaches in Asia. Gallivants around the world by bike. Did a 5,000 km bike trip through Southeast Asia. Should proooobably be the subject of a documentary. TIM RICHARDSON Our go-to guy in Bhutan, Nepal and his native New Zealand. Why? Can cook anything on a barbecue, cut a tree like a lumberjack and repair bikes like they’re made of Lego. Simultaneously. TIM SCHELLENBERGER Recently earned his Master’s. Brazil-based intellectual. Happily shuts off his brain every few days to dive, drum and DJ.
FOR DETAILED ITINERARIES, VISIT BUTTERFIELD.COM 85