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and carries her dog-eared passport like a badge of honour. Born and raised in Germany and educated in London and at UCLA, she’s built a career on writing about her native country for almost two decades. She’s authored or contributed to more than 40 Lonely Planet titles, including all six editions of this book as well as the Berlin city guide, the Berlin Encounter guide and the Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest guide. For this trip she again traded her house in Los Angeles for a teensy rooftop apartment in Berlin – and didn’t regret a day of it.

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KERRY CHRISTIANI

Baden-Württemberg

Big wilderness, the promise of snow in winter and a husband born in Villingen lured Kerry from London to the Black Forest four years ago. When not on the road, Kerry can be found hiking, cycling or cross-country skiing in the woods and hills close to her home. For this edition, she was delighted to rediscover Baden-Württemberg, from canoeing on Lake Constance to testing – well it would be rude not to! – Black Forest cake in Triberg. Kerry’s incurably itchy feet have taken her to some 40 countries, inspiring numerous travel articles, online features and around 15 guidebooks, including Lonely Planet’s Austria, Switzerland, Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest and Portugal.

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MARC DI DUCA

Saxony, Bavaria

From a library job in the Ruhrgebiet during the summer of ’89 to scrambling up the Alps for this guide, Germany and German have been with Marc throughout his adult life. Marc has explored many corners of Germany over the last 20 years, but it’s to the variety and friendliness of Bavaria that he returns most willingly. During research, Marc also enjoyed the opportunity to explore Saxony where he became smitten with the Trabant. When not Trabi hugging in Zwickau or leaving beer rings in Munich, Marc can usually be found in Sandwich, Kent, where he lives with his Kievite wife, Tanya, and son Taras. This is Marc’s fourth Lonely Planet title after Russia, Trans-Siberian Railway and Cycling Britain.

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ANTHONY HAYWOOD

History, The Culture, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Bremen

Anthony was born in the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia, and pulled anchor early on to hitchhike through Europe and the USA. Aberystwyth in Wales and Ealing in London were his wintering grounds at the time. He later studied comparative literature in Perth and Russian language in Melbourne. In the 1990s, fresh from a spell in post-Soviet, pre-anything Moscow, he moved to Germany. Today he works as a German-based freelance writer and journalist and divides his time between Göttingen (Lower Saxony) and Berlin. Anthony worked on the first and most subsequent editions of Germany.

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CATHERINE LE NEVEZ

Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania

Catherine road-tripped across Europe aged four and has been hitting the road at every opportunity since, completing her Doctorate of Creative Arts in Writing, Masters in Professional Writing, and postgrad qualifications in editing and publishing along the way. Catherine has authored or co-authored over a dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks, including two editions of Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest. For this book, she jumped at the chance to celebrate Hamburg’s Hafen-geburtstag, head into northern Germany’s national parks, and soak up the sea air and scenery on the spectacular Baltic and North Sea coastline and islands.

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DANIEL ROBINSON

Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate & Saarland

Brought up in Northern California, Illinois and Israel, Daniel holds degrees from Princeton and Tel Aviv University and now lives with his wife Rachel in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. In his two decades with Lonely Planet, he has covered both sides of the Franco–German border and has had his work translated into 10 languages. The Moselle’s medieval wine villages and the area’s many Radwege (cycling paths) keep bringing Daniel back to Rhineland-Palatinate, but he’s equally enchanted by the trains