Tour guide in Nice Gregory C.

My passion for guiding began long before I ever drove a traveller through the Riviera. I grew up watching my mother work as a multilingual guide at Fragonard, welcoming visitors from all over the world. Languages, stories, curiosity, they were simply part of our everyday life. Every summer, my family returned to our roots in Italy. Those memories, the sound of Italy, the food, the warmth and the slower rhythm of life, shaped my love for discovering new cultures. It also taught me something important: when you feel at home somewhere, you love to share it. Five years ago, I followed that path and became a driver-guide. Today, I introduce travellers to the hidden side of the Riviera: secret viewpoints in the mountains, quiet coastal villages and the authentic Italian towns of Ventimiglia, Dolceacqua, Bordighera and Sanremo. These are places I know by heart, and I love seeing the amazement on my guests’ faces when they discover them. Before guiding, I worked as a retail manager with my wife, meeting visitors from all over the world every day, and as passionate travellers ourselves, especially to the United States, we’ve always believed that sharing cultures brings people together. Guiding allows me to do exactly that. Every tour is an exchange, a story, a moment shared, and that’s what makes this job so meaningful to me.