About the author

A bit about me and why I'm building Destination Munich

Munich grows on you – like a beer belly or a big, curly moustache. That’s what I realized soon after I started research for Destination Munich. 

I’d been coming to Munich for years to work and visit friends from my home in the neighbouring city of Augsburg. 

After deciding to make this site in 2008 I started slurping up everything I could read on Munich and venturing into unknown quarters of the city. 

The more I grasped what made Munich tick the more I fell in love in with the place, and I started believing this was the world’s greatest city. I hope that passion comes across in my writing and rubs off on those of you who are planning a trip to Munich.

My name is Stuart Anderson and I ended up in Germany in 2006. I was a newspaper journalist in my Australian homeland before setting out for a life of travel. Now I scrape out a living as an English teacher and sometimes travel writer. 

I’ve had stories featured on travel websites matador.com, travelfish.com and for the English-language German news website www.thelocal.de. With Destination Munich I’m sharing my zeal for storytelling on my own terms.

Just like a beer belly or a big, curly moustache, this site is growing, so swing by every now and then to see how big it gets. Hope you have as much fun exploring Munich as I’ve had making the site!

Throughout this site you'll find a lot of photos of me and a few of my mates with whom I've explored Munich and Bavaria. This is where I say thanks to those guys, shine on you crazy diamonds!
One of them is a Scot called Robbie who's since moved back home to the wonderful city of Edinburgh. He's now doing an amazing job creating a site full of Edinburgh tourist information, it's at www.edinburgh-insider.com .

I’m also eager to hear about your own experiences travelling in Munich and Bavaria, and this site is open to anyone who wants to contribute.

If you’d like to send in a story, please do so. I’ll give you a page with a full writers’ credit and a link back to your own blog or website if you have one. Please write in here…