About Us

Jean Moss is the visionary behind Olde Ipswich Tours. Her love for travel, knowledge of history and culture, and quest for the finest wine and food is the inspiration behind Olde Ipswich Tours. Twenty-eight years at the helm, Jean has planned and led hundreds of small group culinary European tours.

Jean has an undergraduate degree in French from Colby College, and a master’s degree in French from Middlebury College, earned at the University of Paris. She is fluent in French & Spanish and has lived in Paris, Normandy and Cuernavaca, Mexico. She earned a certificate from the International Tour Management Institute in San Francisco and began leading tours in 1995.

Jacquelyn was born in San Diego, California, and has a JD/MBA and a WSET Level 2 in Wines from the Napa Valley Wine Academy. Jacquelyn holds dual nationality between Spain and the United States. Jacquelyn has traveled to 58+ countries and lived in 10 countries located in South America, Asia, North America, and Europe. Jacquelyn is passionate about art history, travel, architecture, and food/wine pairing. Jacquelyn divides her time between Córdoba, Spain and New York, New York, with her husband Maximiliano and two Welsh Corgis, Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. 

Margaret comes to Olde Ipswich Tours from Dublin, Ireland, where she lived for the last ten years. While living in Ireland with her Irish husband, Margaret worked as a program manager for an ed-tech company developing content for online courses. Prior to her move to Ireland she earned a Masters in Education from Harvard University. She will always cherish the decade she spent booking last-minute flights to explore Europe with her young family and she hopes she has passed her love of travel along to her three young children. Margaret has landed back in the U.S. with her family close to where she grew up on Boston’s North Shore, in the beautiful seaside town of Essex.