Tour Guides
Join a tour with Adrian:
Adrian Metcalfe
Adrian leads tours for us in Wales, Ireland, Greece, and Italy. He is a certified national guide in Wales and Ireland, a Welsh speaker, and has even been known to recite Homer on tour - in Ancient Greek.
Aside from being a tour guide, Adrian works as an actor and got his start with Wales Actors' Co., touring castles and ancient sites around Wales with Henry V. He lived in Vienna for several months while working for Vienna's English Theatre and the Kammerspielhaus; and then moved to New York where he worked for CBS's Community Concerts.
Click here to view a virtual walking tour of Mumbles, South Wales.
Join a tour with David:
David Usher
David Usher first came to the UK in 1976 as a young Australian with a backpack after a year of travel in New Zealand, various Pacific Islands, and North America. He became a student at The University of Oxford, graduating in 1981 with a degree in Philosophy and Theology. He has been a Unitarian Universalist minister, with ministries in England and the United States. He was President of The International Council of Unitarians & Universalists and the author of two books.
David has lived in California since 2014, retired in 2017, and has been leading occasional tours for the past twenty-five years. Having lived in the UK and USA for the past 46 years, he is singularly well-placed to be a translator between the two cultures.
Join a tour with Fiona:
Fiona Bennett
Join a tour with Chrissy:
Chrissy Hoodith
Careers in teaching, tourism, and the theatre, together with a lively sense of fun, have helped equip me for the delights and challenges of guiding throughout the UK. I enjoy walking, literature, and food and love to combine these enthusiasms in my tours for visitors. I'm especially interested in introducing London to family groups, and love to help people explore the East End of London, where I live. I also offer tours with the following themes: Gardens, Maritime History, and Literary London.
I’ve been involved with Mike and Discover Europe since its very beginnings, and it’s been a pleasure to watch the company grow and to get to know some of the regular travelers. Long may it continue!
Join a tour with David:
David Phillips
Join a tour with Gavin:
Gavin Miller
Gavin has been with Discover Europe since the very beginning. Gavin leads tours all over Europe, including the UK, Portugal, Spain, and France.
Gavin has helped us design tours such as Discovering East Anglia (where he grew up) and our tours to Mallorca (where he now calls home).
Join a tour with Svanur:
Svanur Thorkelsson
Svanur is one of our Iceland tour guides. He leads the large majority of our alumni/ae, private and small group Iceland tours. He was an extra on the Game of Thrones when they were filming in Iceland, and because of this has helped us create special extensions and tours designed around the Game of Thrones filming locations.
Join a tour with Ian:
Ian Graham
Join a tour with Matthias:
Matthias Kort
Matthias has been guiding groups all throughout Europe since 2002 and he has guided tours in Germany, Austria, Holland, Italy, Norway, Czech Republic and Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, France, Spain, England, Belgium!
Matthias has been a Berlin City Guide since 2010 and specializes in GDR History, East Berlin times (he lived in GDR and Berlin for 28 years, till the Fall of the Wall in 1989). His "specialties/interests" are European and German history (especially the last 100 years); Nature, Ecology, and Music. Matthias is also married to Sara Cereda-Kort, our fellow Discover Europe tour guide.
Join a tour with Linda:
Linda L'Etoile
Linda has been a wonderful addition to our tour guide lineup. She is one of the guides that we use in Iceland and works with many of our alumni & sponsored groups in Iceland. Her sense of humor, attention to detail, and knowledge of Iceland are just a few of the things that make her a great tour guide!
Join a tour with Michael:
Michael Gordon
Michael B. Gordon is an optometrist by profession and a passionate garden-maker and teacher by avocation. He is a self-trained gardener who has learned by visiting gardens in the United States and Europe. He has developed a half-acre private garden in Peterborough, NH over the past 28 years. His garden has been published in Horticulture, NH Home and Yankee Magazine.
Michael has designed and maintained sophisticated public gardens in the parks of Peterborough for nearly two decades and has trained numerous volunteer gardeners in the art of horticulture. He has hosted tours to English gardens since 2007 and enjoys giving participants ideas on how to implement concepts of English horticulture in their American gardens. Michael started his blog, The Gardener’s Eye, in 2010, and chronicles his gardening travels on Instagram.
Follow Michael on Instagram: @thegardenerseye
Join a tour with Sara:
Sara Cereda-Kort
Sara studied journalism and public relations at the Superior School of Journalism of Turin. She has worked in the Tourism Business for over 30 years. She is married to fellow tour guide Matthias Kort. She leads tours in Italy and throughout Europe for Discover Europe and is passionate about cooking and gourmet food, organizing catering events, and using food and wine as a mean of creativity and communication.
Since the start of the pandemic, Sara has gone back to school and become a health coach to go along with her certificate on nutrition and organic natural food. She’s passionate about finding methods to live better and healthier lives.
Join a tour with Michael:
Michael Induni
Michael Induni is the president of Discover Europe Ltd, a company that he founded in 2001. Michael (Mike or Mick, to his English friends) was seduced by the travel industry while working as a tour guide for the American Council for International Studies during his vacations from Southampton University in England. Upon receiving his degree (in Naval Architecture!), he went to work for ACIS in their headquarters in Boston on a temporary assignment for three months. Ten years later, he had risen to the post of Director of Operations, and it was time to move on. After spending another ten years as Vice President of Lord Addison Travel, a company specializing in small group tours of the British Isles, he decided to indulge his true passion – travelling in continental Europe, particularly around the Mediterranean. As he says - “drop me on a hillside surrounded by vineyards and olive groves and I’m a happy man.” If there happened to be a Greek or Roman ruin in the view, that would just be the icing on the cake.