Tour Managers
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We seek and train our own tour managers. Very
occasionally we also work with people who have acted
as tour manager with other companies, but only very
special ones. These are the people who find the
best cakes, make wonderful picnics and allow
flexibility in the programme to take advantage of
whatever is happening locally…they are
regularly awarded 10 out of 10 by guests.
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Stasha Bailey
Stasha Bailey has been managing Andante’s tours
all over the world for many years. A
Slovenian, she now lives in Barcelona with her
English husband, and translates Catalan and Castillan
Spanish, Greek, German, English. and, of course,
Slovenian. Stasha is also interested in art and
architecture.
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The Maya in Belize & Guatemala
Wed 5 – Wed 19
March 2008
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Roman Province of Lusitania
Mon 31 Mar –
Mon 7 April 2008
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Turkey – The Aegean Coast
Tue 22
April - Sun 4 May 2008
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Catalunya – the delta of Ebro
Sat 6 – Sat 13
Sept 2008
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Moche, Chimu, Inca – the extraordinary
civilisations of Ancient Peru
Sun 28 Sept –
Fri 17 Oct 2008
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Marina Bazzani
Marina is Italian who hails from Genova, although has
lived in the UK for many years. She has studied
classics in Italy, Greece and in the US. She has
a DPhil in Byzantine Studies in Oxford, where
she is currently teaching classics. She has travelled
widely in the Middle and Far East and speaks English,
Modern Greek and German and is very interested in
classical and Byzantine art and archaeology.
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·Sicilia
Antiqua
Thu 18 – Sun 28
Sept 2008
·Sri
Lanka at Christmas
Mon 22 Dec 2008 –
Sat 3 Jan 2009
·Northern
Greece – Epirus & Macedonia
Sun 25 May – Mon 2
June 2008
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Anna Butcher
Anna Butcher is another very popular Tour Manager for
Andante Travels. She speaks fluent Italian and Greek,
and lives for part of the year in the UK and part of
it in Greece.
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·Crete
– Minoan Civilisation
Mon 7 – Mon 14
April 2008
·The
Peloponnese
Tue 15 – Wed 23
April 2008
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Alexandra Casey
Alexandra Casey is one of our most experienced tour
managers. She works full time in the Andante
office and has travelled widely. She has lived
and worked in Italy and speaks fluent Italian.
Alex is also very interested in bird life.
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·Sicilia
Antiqua
Mon 31 March –
Thur 10 April 2008
·Libya
– Tripolitania & Cyrenaica
Tue 14 – Wed 22
Oct 2008
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Anne Chowne
Anne Chowne is an experienced Andante Tour
Manager. Anne has a Masters degree in Primary
Education, and she lectures and researches part-time
at the Institute of Education, University of
London. Anne is a superb cook.
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·Crete
Mon 28 April – Mon
5 May 2008
·Pompeii
for Cognoscenti
Mon 8 – Mon 15
Sept 2008
·Syria
– from the Hauran to the Euphrates
Sun 28 Dec 2008 –
Wed 7 Jan 2008
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Sigrid Dooley
Sigrid Dooley has managed many tours for
Andante. Born in Germany, Sigrid now lives in
France with her English husband. She speaks
French, Italian, Turkish and, of course, English.
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·Tunisia
– The punic wars
Fri 21 – Fri
28 March 2008
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Roman
Germany
Mon 1 – Tue 9 Sept
2008
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Lois Ferguson
Lois Ferguson gained her experience as a tour manager
with another company (but one whom we rate
highly!) She started with Andante in 2004 and
we are delighted to be working with her. She
lives in Italy and speaks fluent Italian.
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·Pompeii,
Herculaneum and
Classical Compania
Mon 22 – Mon 29
Sept 2008
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Rosetta Ferrari
Rosetta Ferrari was born in London to an Italian
family, and worked for many years in the Andante
office. She now lives in Italy, where she
continues to indulge her passion for food and
culture.
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Pompeii
Sat 22 – Sat 29
March 2008
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Ravenna & Aquileia
Fri 18
– Fri 25 April 2008
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Republic of Macedonia
(FYROM)
Mon 28 April – Wed 14 May 2008
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Peru – Moche,
Chimu, Inca
Mon 28 April
– Wed 14 May 2008
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Albania – Land of the Eagles
Mon 19 – Wed
28 May 2008
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Ravenna & Aquileia
Fri 5 – Fri 12
Sept 2008
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Egypt
Wed 5 – Thur 20 Nov
2008
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Ravenna & Aquileia
Sat 20
– Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Conchita Garcia
Conchita Garcia is Spanish, and speaks fluent
English. She lives in Barcelona and works as a
local guide in Valencia and Catalonia. She is
an experienced Andante Tour Manager, and has
accompanied tours in Spain, Mexico and the Middle
East.
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·Egypt
Sun 12
– Mon 27 Oct 2008
·Chile & Easter Island
Mon 17 Nov
– Thur 4 Dec 2008
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Medina
Medina is one of our most experienced tour managers,
and a very popular addition to any party!
Medina speaks Italian and started tour managing for
Andante in 2001. She has since accompanied many
of our tours, particularly those to Italy.
Medina is interested in wines.
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Pompeii,Herculaneum and Classical
Compania
Mon 14 – Mon 21
April 2008
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Apulia – Caves, Castles and Cathedrals
Thurs 22 –
Thurs 29 May 2008
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Pompei For Cognoscienti
Mon 1 – Mon 8
Sept 2008
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Umbria – Archaeology in the hill towns
Tue 30 Sept –
Tue 7 Oct 2008
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Barney Jones
Barnaby is a Tour Administrator in the Andante
office. He read Latin American Studies at
university and has lived in Mexico. He is
widely travelled and speaks Spanish and
Portuguese.
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Syria – From Hauran to the
Euphrates
Sun 6 – Wed 16
April 2008
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Andalucia
Thurs 15 – Thurs
22 May 2008
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The Maya in Mexico
Mon 17 Nov –
Thur 4 Dec 2008
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Alexandra Luchetti
Dr Alexandra Luchetti is an archaeologist,
specialising in the Etruscans and maritime
archaeology, and is widely travelled. She lived
in Italy for many years and speaks fluent Italian and
French and is the Manager of Tour Administration in
the Andante Office.
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Jordan – Petra and the desert fortresses
Thurs 17 – Sat
26 April 2008
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Albania The land of the eagles
Thur 9 Oct – Sat 18
Oct 2008
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Sarah Mayer
Sarah Mayer is an experienced Andante Tour Manager
accompanying a variety of our tours in Europe and the
Middle East. Her other passion is the Arctic,
where she spends much of the year running holidays
and leading youth expeditions. Sarah is also a
pilot of small
aircraft.
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Libya – Tripolitania &
Cyrenaica
Tue 18 Mar – Wed
26 March 2008
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Saxon Shore Forts
Mon 12 – Mon 19
May 2008
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Albania – The land of the eagles
Mon 29 Sept – Wed
8 Oct 2008
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Egypt
Wed 2 – Thur 17
April 2008
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Anatolia
Sat 13 – Wed 24
Sept 2008
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Fares Moussa
Farès
Moussa
specialisesin
North African archaeology/ anthropology and is
currently at the University of Edinburgh
researching
Libyco-/Punic religion and funerary
art in North Africa. He has wide experience in
operations management and coordinating
fieldtrips.
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Brittany
Mon 8 – Sun 14
Sept 2008
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Prehistoric Libya
Tue 21 – Tue 28
Oct 2008
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Martin Plimsoll
Martin Plimsoll has 30 years experience of travel in
Italy and has worked as a Tour Manager for Andante
for 9 years. He is a geographer with some
knowledge of the Italian language, culture and
customs. (He also likes to point out that he is
a leading world authority on grappa.)
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·Pompeii
, Herculaneum and
Classical Compania
Sun 25 May – Sun 1
June 2008
·Wessex
Fri 4 – Sun 6 July
2008
·Sardinia
Sat 27 Sept - Sun 5 Oct
2008
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Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynolds is a very popular member of
Andante’s office staff, where she is in charge
of customer relations as well as a portfolio of
tours. Mary has managed tours in Tunisia, Egypt
and Greece
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·Egypt
Sun 23 March – Mon
7 April 2008
·Tunisia
- Carthage to the Sahara
Tue 28 Oct – Tue
11 Nov 2008
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Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson has a university background in
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation. He
is author of the ‘Rough Guide: Turkey’,
and co-author/photographer of ‘The Lycian
Way’. He lives and works in southwest
Turkey.
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Anatolia
Sat 10 – Wed 21
May 2008
·Turkey
– Kingdom of Ararat
Mon 30 Jun – Sat
12 July 2008
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Jennie Robson
Jennie Robson is an experienced Tour Manager who has
travelled widely with Andante, another specialist
company and independently. She lives in Italy,
is bilingual in English and Italian and speaks some
French. She is teaching herself Turkish.
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·Syria
– From the Hauran to the Euphrates
Sun 12 – Wed 22
Oct 2008
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Ravenna & Aquileia
Tue 6 – Tue 13
May 2008
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Elaine Rowlands
Elaine is another very popular Andante tour manager,
has travelled extensively and speaks Spanish and
Italian well.
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Etruscans
Sun 20 – Sun 27
April
2008
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Provence – by train
Mon 1 – Sun 7 Sept
2008
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Morocco – Casablanca to Marrakesh
Sat 18 – Sun 26
Oct 2008
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Belinda Scaburri
Belinda has joined Andante recently, although she has
previously worked as a Tour Manager for another
well-known UK independent company. She has
lived in Italy for many years, currently in the Le
Marche region, speaks fluent Italian and some French.
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·Latium
– Roman country side
Sun 4 – Sun 11 May
2008
·Pompeii
, Herculaneum and
Classical Compania
Sun 5 – Sun 12 Oct
2008
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Isabella Sjöström
Isabella Welsby Sjöström is an
archaeologist who has travelled and worked in Italy,
Turkey, Libya and Sudan. We are delighted to
have her archaeological expertise as well as her
managing skills. She is enviably multi-lingual,
including Italian, and has worked on a number of
tours for Andante.
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Libya – Tripolitiana &
Cyrenaica
Tue 22 – Wed 30
April 2008
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Jordan – Petra and the desert
fortresses
Thur 2 – Sat 11
Oct 2008
·Turkey
– Kingdom of Ararat
Mon 30 Jun – Sat
12 July 2008
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Etruscans
Sun 19 – Sun
26 Oct 2008
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Emily
Stokley
Emily Stokely worked as Office Manager for Andante
before leaving to start her young family several
years ago. She now lives in the Dordogne, where
she and her husband are building their own house and,
unsurprisingly, speaks excellent French. Whilst she
has not worked in this capacity in recent years, she
has acted as Tour Manager on many Andante holidays in
the past - and her picnics were famed throughout our
company!
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·Dordogne
– Cave paintings
Mon 19 – Sun 25
May 2008
·Pyrenees
Mon 1 – Sun 7 Sept
2008
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