FABIO FIRLI

Growing up with the dream of being able to travel in space, Fabio is forced to modify his plans after realising the impossibility of being admitted to the course at the Italian Naval Academy.
From then on, for fourteen years, he works for a distribution company in which he is able to, quite quickly, show his ability and versatility in the management of crises. During this period he gets to know all the roles in the distribution phases until he becomes, from the end of the 90's, Logistics Manager.

In 1998 he marries Suzanne and starts plans to dedicate himself to tourism.
In 2002, after buying and restructuring a 14th century house, their adventure takes off by offering their hospitality in a Bed and Breakfast apartment.

During these three years, dense with real success, and after having assisted many tourists in the organisation of the successive legs of their trips, the idea to dedicate himself full-time to the activity of tourist consultancy, matures.
Today, at the age of 35, he is ready to transform the experience of the past few years and to become a mediator for travellers and guests.

Languages Spoken: Italian, English and Dutch.

SUZANNE SIMONS

Mother of two wonderful young daughters, from a tender age she shows a particular aptitude for and interest in the various art forms. Born in Holland at the end of the 60's, she has a classical education with the strong influence derived from her parent's passion for music.
The second of three children, all of them introduced to music at an early age, she starts to study the violin at the age of 7. She continues studying the violin until she reaches maturity. Many are the reasons for which she abandons her studies of the violin, which she still regrets today.

She obtains a diploma specialising in the care of the mentally handicapped. After a few years she gets to know Fabio, for whom she leaves her country and transfers to Italy. Amongst the things that followed her during her trip, a personal collection of antiques as a result of her passion, from a tender age, for antiques and particularly for objects. 19th Century straw teddy bears, kitchen utensils from various periods, lamps, teacups and much more make part of her own home a type of antique work in progress. In Italy she continues with her passion finding satisfaction in the flea markets which she loves to go to periodically and in the buying of the house where she can express the same excitement that her objects transmit.

Together with Fabio she buys and restores, taking personal care of the interior, a 14th century house in the medieval quarter of Tivoli. As mother she is able to find a way to combine working with raising her children. Thus the Bed and Breakfast is born in Tivoli.

Bright and sunny, always ready to sustain any type of creative iniziative, she has the characteristics which are not easily found elsewhere. She at times has to pay for her peculiarity, but she wins most of the time.

Suzanne does not know how not to be sincere.

Languages Spoken: Italian, English, Dutch and German.