Sami’s love for travelling started at aged 16 when she moved from Argentina to Germany with her family. From that moment, travelling became her passion, and she explored Europe as much as she could. After studying Tourism she moved to London where she stayed for three years working in hospitality to then move to Japan together with her boyfriend. Known to be a culture full of traditions, she tried to take part in as many as possible. Japanese people believe everyone should climb Mount Fuji once in their lifetime and so Sami did, and she realized when she reached the top, how the simple things in life are the ones that truly matter. Whilst in Japan she travelled to India, Vietnam, Thailand, China and South Korea among others. Now she is back in Argentina with her soon-to-be husband, and the big question is: where to go next?

Place: Buenos Aires

During the year she lived in Australia, Delfina woke up every day to a view of the sun rising over North Bondi beach. Just like the rest of the country, her life soon began to revolve around the beach and she would head there straight from work to soak up the sun. She moved to Santiago to be with her boyfriend, and spend their weekends on Chile’s Pacific coast. Delfina periodically opens Google Maps and asks herself “Where next?”, and her passion for spur-of-the-moment trips has taken her to Indonesia, Vietnam, China and Russia. A Visual Arts student in her home city of Buenos Aires, Delfina can happily spend hours on end in a trance-like state creating artworks using acrylic, varnish and tar.

Place: Santiago

Dani was born and raised in Sao Paulo, married in Santiago and currently lives in Dubai – but says she would swap the fairytale forests in Chile’s Lake District for the Arabian desert any day. When she first travelled to Europe in the middle of her university degree, she had already caught the travelling bug, and since then has been witness to the most unique and curious events across the globe, including Mongolia’s National Sports Championship and funeral rituals in Indonesian villages. Amongst her greatest achievements at Glove is the time she coordinated a special ceremony to celebrate two clients’ 10 year wedding anniversary inside San Pedro de Atacama’s 18^th century church, along with the village priest!

Place: Dubai

Hattie grew up on the Welsh borders and had her first solo travel experience at 16 years old when she travelled to Madagascar to take part in a charity project and trekking expedition.  The baobab trees, lemurs and vibrant Malagasy culture sparked her wanderlust which has since taken her inter-railing across Europe, backpacking in Central and South America, relocating wild elephants in South Africa and climbing volcanoes in Chile.  She has lived in Granada, Spain and moved to Chile 4 years ago where she threw herself into the world of wine, working for wineries in the cool-climate Casablanca Valley.  She currently lives in Santiago de Chile with her Chilean husband and rescue dog, Rita.  She continues to expand her wine knowledge and loves to spend summers wakeboarding on Lake Calafquen in the Chilean Lake District.

Place: Santiago

Vicente is our office mascot.  We’d like to share his life motto with you:

HE DIES SLOWLY

“He dies slowly,
He who does not travel,
Who does not read,
Who does not listen to music,
Who does not find grace in himself, dies slowly.

He who slowly destroys his self-esteem,
Who does not allow himself to be helped,
Who spends days on end complaining about his bad luck,
About the rain that never stops, dies slowly.

He who becomes transforms himself into a slave of the habit,
Who follows the same routes every day,
Who never change pace ,
Who does not risk and change the color of its clothes,
Or who never speaks with those he does not know, dies slowly.

He who shuns passion, who prefers black on white,
And dotting “i”s to a bundle of emotions,
The kind that make your eyes glimmer, that turn a yawn into a smile,
And heal wounded hearts, dies slowly.

He who does not change directions,
When he is unhappy at work, or in love,
Who does not risk certainly for uncertainty…
To follow a dream,
Who do not forego sound advise at least once in his life,  dies slowly.

Live, now!
Risk, now!
Act, now!
Don’t let yourself die slowly!”

Pablo Neruda

Born in Buenos Aires, as soon as Ivan finished school he packed his rucksack and set off backpacking around Europe. What was originally intended as three months travelling turned into a year bartending in Mallorca. When Ivan later found himself back in Buenos Aires working in finance, he realized that he had never been happier than the time he spent travelling, and so since then he has lived and worked in Spain, Brazil and the United States. Tempted over the Andes by thoughts of sipping a Pisco Sour on the beach in Tunquén, Ivan lived in Chile where he met his wife.  He has since moved back to Buenos Aires with his wife and their twin daughters and baby girl in tow.

Place: Buenos Aires

Sophie first came to Chile 12 years ago on a study exchange from France, and took the chance to backpack around Peru, where she remembers spending a magical night on the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca listening to folklore tales by candlelight in a fisherman’s house.  As soon as Sophie finished university she left the French Basque Country and moved back to Santiago to be with her Chilean boyfriend. Now they’re married and living in Santiago with two daughters. Sophie is a keen cook and photographer, and her family has learned to wait for her to take a photo before they tuck in to one of her culinary triumphs.

Place: Santiago

Maria Luisa was born in Madrid and grew up surrounded by flamenco music in Seville. She’s also lived in Germany and Portugal, studying performing arts and working for international fashion brands, and now lives in Santiago with her husband and three children. Maria Luisa loves the anticipation of an upcoming holiday and she gets just as excited about planning trips for her clients at Glove as she does planning them for friends (once she organized a Trip of a Lifetime for 10 friends in Thailand). On top of studying philosophy, in Santiago she spends her time playing with her children, devouring books and going to the theatre.

Place: Santiago

Guiomar has lived in Switzerland, London, Chicago and Chile, and now heads up Glove’s Spanish office in her native city, Madrid, where she lives with her husband and their three children. Guiomar believes you shouldn’t wait until tomorrow to enjoy what life has to offer, and spends her weekends with family and friends, waterskiing on a nearby lake or skiing in the mountains. Guiomar has worked in luxury fashion and ran her own international design & decoration business, and now combines the two designing luxury trips which she knows her clients will remember for the rest of their lives. Her favorite place in Chile is Matanzas, an unspoilt, rugged beach where she spent many family holidays paddle-boarding amongst pelicans and sea lions.

Place: Spain

Katy was born in northwest England and went to university in Wales, where she took advantage of long summer holidays and student loans to travel. One day, she and her best friend decided to up sticks and move to Barcelona. It was there that Katy first heard about Chile, and having never been before she made the decision to move across the world. She met her boyfriend and decided to stay, and now they live together in the center of Santiago with their cat and two bicycles with a very high mileage. Last year she traveled to the Atacama Desert with her family and boyfriend, and still hasn’t forgotten watching the sun set over salt flats dotted with flamingoes.

Place: Santiago

Yanina is from Buenos Aires and lives with her fiancée, who she’s marrying next spring. Yanina comes from an events and marketing background and this experience, coupled with her positive outlook on life, means that she makes planning a wedding look like a breeze. An avid reader, Yanina feels incomplete if she travels without a book, and her favorites are historical sagas that take you back to another time. She loves exploring cities like Valparaiso and Barcelona on foot and stumbling across strange things and tempting-looking restaurants on every corner.

Place: Santiago

Agus is originally from Buenos Aires but for many years she lived in Chile. Her favorite place is Quintay, a fishing village with delicious seafood places and a beach that goes on forever. Agus has camped on the island of Chiloé when it was still completely undiscovered, gone rafting in Costa Rica and visited 15 different European countries in 15 days. She now lives with her husband and three children in Buenos Aires where she spends her weekends practicing yoga and playing with her children in the park. Agus swears by the motto that if you smile at life, life will smile back at you.

Place: Buenos Aires

Mercedes is from Buenos Aires and lives there with her husband and their three children. Mercedes’ parents taught her to prioritize travel over everything else in life, and she’s determined to raise her children with this same adventuring attitude; she doesn’t bat an eyelid when it comes to trekking through the jungle in Colombia with a toddler in tow and a small baby strapped to her back. She reckons the best landscapes in Chile are along the Carretera Austral and loves the way that in a single day in Patagonia you can go from a tropical jungle climate to tundra to rainforest and back again. At home in Argentina she spends her weekends with family and friends talking for hours around the BBQ.

Place: Buenos Aires