Travel blogger for Germany

Hello,

I'm Angelika

If you like to travel on your own , you will find on my blog suggestions for your travel itinerary, the most beautiful sights and my insider tips for your unforgettable road trip or your road trip in Germany.

Angelika Klein - Portrait - Sindelfingen-2- 2022 - angiestravelroutes.com

 

My tips and suggested routes will help you to plan your perfect itinerary for your road trip in my beautiful homeland.

If you have outgrown the backpacker age, you probably have - like me - a certain standard of accommodation, restaurants, means of transportation, etc. When I travel, I look for the best value for money and am happy to pass on my findings to you.

For decades, I have traveled both privately and professionally to almost all continents. Therefore, I know what issues you are concerned about when preparing a self-organized trip. On my website, you get:

  • Suggestions for classic as well as for unusual travel routes through Germany
  • Lots of practical information about well-known and lesser-known places in Germany
  • My honest opinion about sights, museums, hotels, restaurants ...
  • Background information on German history, art, architecture and important personalities
  • Cultural, culinary and curios facts about "the Germans"

With my blog, I want to help travelers from Germany and abroad to discover the beauties and peculiarities of Germany. If you are a German and have landed here, you probably want to get to know your own country better. Even then, you will benefit from my tips.

Ich wünsche dir viel Spaß beim Stöbern auf meinem Blog. Vielleicht ist ja unter den folgenden Artikeln schon etwas Passendes für dich dabei.

– Angelika 

The Blue Land, Bavaria: Best Things to See, Do and Explore

The Blue Land, Bavaria: Best Things to See, Do and Explore

The Blue Land is located in the foothills of the Alps in Upper Bavaria, about 60 kilometers south of Munich. In the mornings and evenings, the light bathes the landscape in a deep blue: the moss, the lakes, the distant mountain ranges of the Estergebirge, the Ammergau Alps and the...

Road Trip Germany - The Most Beautiful Routes with Highlights and Map,

Road Trip Germany - The Best Routes with Highlights and Map

Germany is perfect for a road trip: well-maintained roads, a variety of landscapes, exciting cities and plenty of culture and culinary delights along the way. I have prepared the travel routes in this article so that you can start planning right away.

Nuremberg Sights - The Complete City Guide [with map]

Nuremberg Sights - The Complete City Guide [with map]

The traces of Nuremberg's more than 1,000 years of history make every visit to this city an unforgettable experience. Characterized by its medieval past, its role as the city of the Nazi party rallies during the Nazi era and an impressive...

Weimar sights - the complete city guide (with map)

Weimar Sightseeing - Complete City Guide (with Map)

Weimar's sights are in a special field of tension: here, the cultural highlights of German history and the memory of its darkest abysses lie close together. The bell tower of the Buchenwald Memorial on the Ettersberg can be seen from...

The story of Angie's Travel Routes

 

I've been thinking about starting a travel blog when I was at hospital in 2018. After 37 years at work, a burnout had thrown me off track. During the therapy, I realized that I couldn't continue like this. Since my employer was downsizing at the time, I took the opportunity to leave the company. Going forward, I only want to do things that I really enjoy - travel, photography and writing, learning new things, sharing my knowledge and insights with others. I can reconcile all that with this travel blog.

Until the outbreak of the pandemic, I had been traveling in many countries and cultures - both solo and with travel partners, mostly with my friend Paula, who lives in Melbourne (I met her on a trip to South Africa in 2005). But also with my daughter Anna, my parents, my sister and dear friends I had unique travel experiences.

with Paula on a boat trip on the Zambezi - 2008 - angiestravelroutes.com
Family trip to Allgäu - Isny 2021 - angiestravelroutes.com
with Paula in front of Melbourne skyline - 2019 - angiestravelroutes.com
2022 with my girlfriend Jutta and my daughter Anna at the Achensee in Tirol - angiestravelroutes.com
Viewpoint near Ella, Sri Lanka with Anna and my father - 2017 - angiestravelroutes.com
my daughter and my sister toast to beautiful days in Venice with an Aperol spritz - Dorsoduro Venice 2022 - angiestravelroutes.com

 

Corona put many travel plans on hold. Paula was unable to leave Australia, and for me, too, there was only one trip abroad since 2019, when I spontaneously flew to Rhodes in October 2020. Otherwise, I was only traveling in Germany during the pandemic. If you think now that I found that frustrating and boring, I can tell you - to my own surprise, it wasn't.

I was thrilled by places I might never have visited otherwise. I also made surprising discoveries during excursions around my hometown near Stuttgart. In particular, my road trip in the summer of 2021 through central Germany - formerly part of the GDR - flipped a switch in my head. Wartburg Castle near Eisenach, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library and Goethe's residence in Weimar, the beautiful Thuringian capital of Erfurt, St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, and our capital city of Berlin, which never ceases to fascinate me ... These experiences have awakened in me the desire to show as many people as possible what an exciting and diverse travel destination Germany is.