Europe a la Carte Blog

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Hi!, I’m Karen Bryan, the founder and editor of the Europe a la Carte blog. I started blogging in October 2006, as a way of adding more content to my travel business Europe a la Carte. My site focuses on authentic travel in Europe on a modest budget. I believe that by venturing, even slightly, off the well worn tourist track that you can see more of the real Europe, avoiding the tourist crowds and inflated prices.

I started as the editor of the Wandalust UK travel blog in March 2008.

In June 2008 the Europe a la Carte blog became a multi-author blog.

Current bloggers

Anna Etmanska is a writer based in Arctic Sweden. She has lived in 8 different countries, visited 57 others and counting. Anna has a black-belt in travelling on a budget and is happy to share her tips with Europe a la Carte. For more info about her, visit her website at www.budgettrouble.com.

I’m Amanda Kendle, I’ve been writing about my travels for some years now, and after living in Germany, Slovakia and Japan, and travelling to almost 40 other countries, I’ve had plenty of fuel. Although I’m now based again in my homeland, Australia, I still pine for Europe and write about it every chance I get it.

Two of my favourite journeys took place in Europe. My most memorable Christmas was in Finnish Lapland, when I got to drive a reindeer sleigh on Christmas Day. And probably the best trip I’ve ever taken was across Russia and down through the Baltic countries, starting on the Trans-Siberian train and then backpacking my way through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland before settling for a while in Bratislava.

To pay my bills these days, I teach English to foreigners part-time, and write part-time for a collection of blogs, including travel blogs like Jaunted, Vagabondish and Travel Rants. I also edit musings about travel, people and cultural differences at SameSkyMagazine.com and am trying to get some novels completed and published, a struggle I’m documenting at BecomingAFictionWriter.com, especially like seeking out hidden corners of cities and towns and look forward to highlighting some of my favourites on the Europe A La Carte blog.

Jacinta Lodge is an Australian expat located in Berlin, Germany. She is a freelance writer, freelance scientist, freelance embroiderer and freelance tourist, and thinks that life probably couldn’t get much better. When not kicking back in the world’s coolest city, she jaunts around Europe in a thirty year old VW bus in the company of a sarcasm-challenged German and a mongrel dog. You can contact her on jacintalodge at yahoo.com

Andy Hayes is a freelance travel writer and photographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. When not out having travel adventures (or dreaming of new ones), he is hitting the walking trails near home. Passionate about European escapades that avoid hordes of tourists, he is feeling quite at home here at Europe a la Carte. To get in touch or see Andy’s other travelogues, visit his website at http://andyhayes.com.

Hello, I’m Jason Green a 35 year old American professional freelance writer and currently live in Croatia. I graduated college from San Francisco State with a degree in International Relations in 2003 and since then have, pretty much, been on the road. For the past few years have been traveling to places such as Southeast Asia and Europe and have lived in Italy and Croatia since 2006. I love to travel, play beach volleyball and write, and I have great hair. I am happy living in Croatia with my Croatian girlfriend, as it is a beautiful place with friendly people. I just wish they did not want to practice their English when I talk with them, as it does not help my Croatian. I want to keep writing and eventually work in some capacity at an NGO to do some good in this wacky world in which we live. Hope you enjoy my travel blogs and if you do I have another blog http://kazmerzack.blogspot.com. Thanks, and happy reading.

Former bloggers

Caught up in the moment and the cobblestones, Suchi Rudra Vasquez writes and teaches in Prague, Czech Republic.