Oliver Mayerhoffer

I was born in Cheltenham in 1990 — British mother, Austrian father. Childhood tasted like Richard’s garden next door, Great Aunty Gabbi’s bread, and Mediterranean holidays where salt and lemon were the seasoning.

At fifteen I crossed India by train. That trip rewired how I read spice. Teen years in Uncle Wolfgang’s Austrian kitchen taught me mise en place without making me perform it in every paragraph.

Oman and Dubai came later — including my first stretch owning hotel marketing: rooms, booking channels, and the campaigns that had to fill them. Then sailing out of Spain, backpacking through Cambodia and Laos, a monk chapter on Koh Chang.

I met Natalia on that island in 2014. Married in Krasnoyarsk, 2015. Victor arrived in Koh Samui, November 2016.

Six UK years — documents, school, weight. We lost my mother Julie and my brother Daniel. Natalia’s grandparents Valentina and Victor Moskalenko passed too.

Mangoes and Palm Trees started in 2018 — grief turned into something your family can use. We sold the house and came back to Asia.

Vietnam in 2024. Southeast Asia field season now.

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