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photo: Robbin M.

Robbin M.

Age: in the 40’s
Born: Canada; currently resides in Vancouver, BC
Education: B.A. in Business, M Sc. from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture
Previous Life: Grape picker, rickshaw driver, teacher, itinerant traveler
Languages: English, French, Spanish and a wee bit of Arabic
Passions: music, photography, travel, windy places, and mountains with snow
Trips guided and/or traveled: Tuscany, Umbria, Provence, Dordogne, Loire Valley, Alsace, Brittany, Burgundy, Camino de Santiago, Andalucia, Portugal, New Zealand, Morocco, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Croatia to name some
Favourite Trips: the first trip (Camino de Santiago) and most recent (Croatia)
Why: They have all been enjoyable, but the first got me hooked, and the most recent has me wanting to go back.

2 truths and a lie:
Former stunt man- can ride two bicycles at one time (while facing backwards)
Ridden a camel from Mhamid, Morocco to Timbuktu (facing forwards)
Bicycled 5000 km through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Laos and am desperate to return to each