Short answer, yes. We take ultimate responsibility for our trips, and it is our express goal that engaging Trufflepig to plan and deliver your trip should provide you with a cast iron guarantee of quality. If we fail in that mission, we will follow our Fair + 1 Guiding Principle and do our level best […]
John is the mensch of Trufflepig, the good bloke, the friendly fella. Is it the slight hint in his English accent of a west country burr? The ready laugh, the sense of humour that’s sweet but also slightly sharp like a pint of Somerset cider? I think it’s the fact that he seems like he’s […]
Katrina jumped ship into the travel trade from the film-making world by way of the landscape gardening business. Eh? The through line is an organisational rigour combined with a certain gluttony for punishment: she’s a natural control freak who seems to be attracted to industries where details refuse to be detailed, rules exist to be […]
Lucia’s maxim during the first year of her Trufflepig tenure was ‘tread softly and wear a big smile’. That was probably less about adjusting to life in Canada from her native Argentina than simply because she’s a discreet and attentive person by nature. But now with a role that requires wrangling detail (and keeping our […]
Living in Paris and working on our Brazil trips, you’d be excused for thinking Laís has the best job in the world. She’s certainly pretty happy about life. Joining Trufflepig after a long working relationship with us from within a partner company in her native Brazil, Laís did nonetheless use the word ‘joy’ more times […]
Hannah brings the same diligence and care to her work on Trufflepig’s Asia trips as she does to making sure everyone in the room is comfortable, as she does to our in-house design work, as she does to her many extra curricular artistic endeavours. You know the saying: show me how you do one thing, […]
Julieta aka Juliet aka Jules is a person of contrasts and contradictions. Someone more down to earth you’re unlikely to meet; someone with more off-the-wall quirk, neither. Handling the logistics of our Europe trips from Sweden to the Sahara, her wide-ranging backstory sure comes in helpful: raised in Argentina, educated in England, married in France, […]
How on earth did Trufflepig get by before Stef? We managed okay somehow for 18 years, but now we can’t go 18 minutes without her. Stef’s role at Trufflepig is to make sure that human considerations are kept front of mind even as we concentrate on operational efficiencies and logistics. She’s our Planner Whisperer. And […]
We thought we were getting the Information Age but we stumbled blindly into the Misinformation Age. How did this happen? I can’t answer that question, but I can tell you that it’s NOT because there was too much high quality independent journalism out there. Which is why Trufflepig will be supporting The Narwhal as part […]
Alessia is an MVP in a team full of MVPs, quietly kicking ass day by day by day by day. They say you can tell someone’s character by how they treat children and animals, and by this method Alessia’s kindness and fairness shines through, practised no doubt during her time working at the Humane Society. […]
The ingredients for this daunting dish are many, and complicated. By far the most important of them are bravery and time. You cannot rush a cassoulet, and you cannot let it get the better of you. Those of you who are adventurous and gourmand enough to try this marvellous dish will find it will try […]
What makes a hotel great? The service, the view, the rooms, the location….. Often it’s the little things. Sometimes it’s the sheer opulence. But on occasion, and dammit it’s always a great occasion, it’s the pooch. There’s no category that we know of in hotel books, no little icon in the Michelin guide or tickbox to […]
Greece is just about my favourite country in the world, and there’s little I don’t like about it, from the pom-poms on the shoes, to the grilled octopus, the arid islands, the lively people, the ancient marvels, and even the astonishing modern pop music. I’ve biked around it, walked across it, sailed through it, swam all over it […]
I write from a noisy, jam-packed café on the waterfront in Spetses. A small island, only an hour or so from Athens by boat. Tonight, in commemoration of the famous warrior princess Bouboulina, a small boat will symbolically be set on fire in the harbour. As far as I can tell, the entire city of Athens […]
And the choice wasn’t hard. Late nights in the office finishing reports and getting ready for the arrival of the in-laws while buying mediocre last minute gifts on Amazon. Or bursting through chest-deep powder high up in the Canadian Rockies enjoying the year’s best snow and conditions with the world’s best guide. Yes the week […]