Your
Hosts: Michel & Lyliane
| One
might wonder if Gate House owner/operators Lyliane and Michel Job
have cornered the market on romantic entrepreneurship. Careers have
led them to exotic locations, yet when circumstances called for it,
they invented new professions for themselves. They are college sweethearts from a university in Toulouse, France. Lyliane worked in the international financing department of a large French Bank, while Michel completed his MBA degree in financing. His first assignment with a Boston-based oil-consulting firm took the couple on foreign assignment to Algeria. Later in Boston with two sons in school, Lyliane became an owner/principal in a real estate franchise before they moved to the Middle East. In the early 1990s, the couple owned/operated two wine boutiques in Boston, but gradually New England's penetrating cold brought thoughts of warmer climes and THE BIG MOVE. |
With child-rearing over and now naturalized Americans, they started planning another total makeover of their existence. Lesser mortals might ask why, but the Jobs responded "pourquoi pas" to airlifting their lives to something totally different. They reached back to a previous dream of running a bed-and-breakfast operation somewhere in the Caribbean. |
The
two adventurers took off in the summer of 2001 to do site checks,
with Saba one of the properties on their review list. It was love
at first site. The Gate House was perfect for a mom-and-pop —in
this case "Maman et Papa"— venture, and they opened in October
2001. Michel, always the cook in the family, took over the kitchen. Lyliane handles the wine and all business and marketing aspects. Their reputation for outstanding cuisine, a wine list of repute, and detail-oriented service in a warm, family environment is now an established presence on the island and in the region. "Yes," affirms Lyliane of their choice, "Saba is paradise..." Back |
