Flying Paradise
team is mainly composed of Christophe,
Maria and Vassilis. |
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Christophe, Flying Paradise's
director is French and speaks perfect
English (with just the slightest
hint of a French accent!).
He grew up in the Paris suburb
area (hates towns since then),
had a lot of problems at school,
then difficulties to find his way
before discovering nature and sports.
He has been involved with outdoor
sports since the age of 19, teaching
climbing, windsurfing, snow-boarding,
and water-skiing. He has been flying
hand-gliders and paragliders for
the last 20 years.
Christophe is also a plane and
micro-light pilot and he is now
very much into sky diving, wing-suit
flying and base-jumping.
He has taught paragliding and worked
as a tandem pilot in France, England,
Venezuela, Bulgaria, Canada and
Greece.
In 1995, he started to open
flying sites in the east of Peloponnese,
thereby creating Flying Paradise.
He has been offering paragliding
holidays and training seminars
ever since.
Other then working in sport,
Christophe had a loooong list
of jobs, including : street artist
(juggling, unicycle, tight rope),
selling massages on the beach,
diving fisherman and selling
encyclopedias from door
to door in Italy!!
 Christophe`s
other personal interest is to
help stray animals. He also try
to understand why people are
so obsessed in making as much
money as possible instead of
enjoying life, or want to kill
other people, as well as destroying
the planet. |
Maria is Christophe's
partner, she looks after the non
flyers and anything that need to
be organized. Her smile and kindness
always makes you feel at ease.
She practices kayak and is a beginner
paraglider pilot.
 Maria
is Greek from Ligourio, a little
village above which we often
fly. Like Christophe she likes
travelling, the country side
and will fight to help the strays.
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Vassilis is our
other permanent instructor and
guide. He has been flying for
over 10 years. He is a rafting
guide, Kayak and paragliding instructor.
Vassilis main role is to look
after the school, but will sometime
be with us on the sites depending
on the schedule and the number
of available instructors. |
