Andrea has made a living as a travel writer and photographer for over 20 years, visiting some 70 countries in the process and authoring a similar number of guidebooks, mostly for Lonely Planet. Add to that hundreds of articles in print and online, magazine editing, travel consulting, developing content for travel apps, translating from German to English and vice versa...
Andrea’s destination expertise is especially strong when it comes to her native Germany and especially to Berlin, where she makes her home. She also has extensive knowledge about Crete, Dubai and the UAE, California and various Caribbean islands.
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Andrea says, "Don't leave Berlin without exploring the city's diverse neighborhoods, trying a Currywurst and watching the sun rise after a night of wild partying."
When it comes to German cooking, you can most definitely expect the wurst… Pardon the pun, but it is, of course, true that sausage in all its infinite varieties is a staple on German menus. And so are roast pork,...
When in Berlin, there are plenty of reasons to get out bed: cool sights, eye-opening museums, fashion-forward shopping...and breakfast. Germans take their breakfast seriously. None of this stale bread with a...
Since the fall of the Wall in 1989, Berlin's hotel landscape has undergone a turbo-charged expansion, resulting in more than 133,000 beds in 800 hotels, B&Bs and hostels. With competition being so fierce, rates...
Since the 90s, Berlin's dance floor action has reached near-mythical status and greatly influenced the city’s reputation as a capital of cool. It has incubated trends and sounds and launched the careers of some of...
Flashback to Berlin in the 1920s: cabaret, dada, dance, dens of iniquity inhabited by a sinful demi-monde that included Marlene Dietrich and Christopher Isherwood. The latter famously immortalized the age in his...
Foodies take note: you can indeed eat very well in Berlin. While restaurants in London, Paris and Copenhagen have hogged the headlines in recent years, the culinary quality and breadth in Germany’s capital has...
