17-Nov-09 10:13

Sarah Bareham

 

Job title: Operations Assistant

How do you deal with stress: A combination of writing lists on post-it notes and Ben & Jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie ice cream.

Your favorite place: Far too many to choose between but Chugchilan in Ecuador, Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Kathmandu, the Isle of Skye (rock on geography field trips).

Last book you read: The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

 

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19-Nov-09 09:09

Simon Tierney

Job Title: Marketing Manager/Expedition Leader

Favorite line from a film:  Mickey to Rocky in Rocky,  You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!

What’s your favorite place?  Villa Maria.  I miss the kids, the fun and even Alejandro and the boys.  I also think that Patagonia is spot on.

Last book you read:  The God Delusion.  It made me feel incredibly unintelligent but I looked clever whilst reading it.

Your heroes include:  Sir Ranolph Fines, Marvin Gaye,  Zola before he joined West Ham, Matt Oakley.

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19-Nov-09 12:01

Jon Cassidy

Job title:  Managing Director

Favorite line from a film:  “She turned me into a newt …. well I got better!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail

How do you deal with stress:  I watch Brighton play football, it helps to remind me there are always people worse off than me…

Your favorite place:  Home in Devon, it never changes!

Your best day at quest so far?  Taking part in a fashion show at our shanty town project in Lima, Peru. I was in the beachwear section – string vest, hanky on my head and a rubber ring round my waist!

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30-Aug-09 10:36

Philip Anscombe

Philip AnscombeJob Title: Technical support and Feng Shui Consultant

Favorite line from a film:  "Me, your Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. "
Reply to Prince Feisal by Claude Rains in Lawrence of Arabia 

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" informatica soccorso?  - nessuno m' a detto me" from cult Italian film "Dove Fillipo e andate Adesso" -  direttore  Simone Tiernini

 Favourite Line

 " He was a thinker, a dreamer - a speculative philosopher - or, as his wife would have it,  - an idiot"

How do you deal with stress:  walk 

Your favorite place:  about half way up an alp

Job title:  bloke who wandered past the office last Thursday

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24-Apr-09 09:47

Alix Odgers

FavouAlixrite line from a film: "He was a good man."

How do you deal with stress:  Go for a run, or find a dog to play with.

Your favorite place:  Somerset (of course), or Nckwichi Lodge, Lake Malawi

Your best day at quest so far?  Swimming with the pumas, or dawn above Cusco after the final night party...

Who makes you laugh?  Simon (not Matt Brimble)

Last journey you took:  To Northumberland and back...

Proudest moment at work:  Ask me again in a few months!

Your heroes include: Jim Clements (not Matt Brimble)

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