Europe Travel Highlights – Part 2

The second half of my 2015 Europe trip brought many more great meetings with campers. In Barcelona I was honored to join Erik Sevillano and his dad Victor to celebrate Erik’s mother Christina’s 39^th birthday. This will be Erik’s 6^th season Daniel’s 5th summer, and Mikey’s 7^th summer.

Rick Littlefield was honored to help celebrate the birthday of Supermom and RH loyalist Christina Sellart and Ramon Shayo Cup winner Erik Sevillano in Barcelona!

In Madrid I was very pleased to visit with Jaime and Juan Garcia Larriu, and Pilar Garcia Friginal at their home. Ines Gomez Recio, the always cheerful and smiling tennis star stopped by my hotel along with her older brother Javier who will be a counselor with us this summer for the first time. Thank you to the Lopez Garayalde family, who hosted a wonderful luncheon party for me that included Lucia, Maria, Javier and Pablo Lopez Garayalde, all part of a long time RH family. Also Javier Herrero and family surprised me with their appearance along with Paula Acuesta. The incredibly enthusiastic bothers Fernando and Juan Llovet also stopped by to say hello.

How many Robin Hooders can you identify in this photo from Rick’s visit to Madrid?

Rick Littlefield with Juan, Fernando and Elena Llovet in Madrid.

In Rome, Emanuel Eco kindly invited me to his home and introduced me to his good friend Enrico Tronci. Thank you for giving me an excuse to re-visit Rome– one of my favorite cities in the world

In Milan, I was fortunate to be introduced to new camper Costanza Giordano along with sister Vittoria and little brother Luigi.

In my very first visit to Brescia, Italy, I had the honor of celebrating an early 13th birthday sushi dinner with the famous tennis player Kevin Bruno Gatta who of course was wearing his RH clothing.

It was special to catch up with Kevin Gatta and his mom Susy in Brescia, Italy.

In Monaco, I enjoyed our almost annual lunch at Quai des Artiste with Alexis Minder (mother of Alexander, Andrew, and Anthony Minder) and Tatiana Khatsenkov (mother of Catherine, Anthony and Sophia Khatsenkov). Andrew, a Junior at Choate School in CT dropped by to say hello and I caught up with Catherine as she was leaving the International School of Monaco.

It was great to see Catherine Khatsenkov in Monaco.

After a last day stop in London on my way out of Europe I had the delight of catching up with long time Robin Hood loyalist and alumnus Nicolas Opinsky after far too many years. Great to see you Nicolas and also all of the 100+ campers and prospects I had the pleasure of meeting in Europe. Thanks for making this year’s trip so stimulating, fun, and memorable.