No city gives us the opportunity to explore the history and nature of humanity better than Berlin.

Of this I've become certain over the past ten years, living and working as a tour guide, a teacher, and a student in this city I'm so blessed to call my home. In my eleven years here as a bike and walking tour guide, it has been my goal to help visitors acknowledge and make the get the most out of this cultural opportunity.

Education has always been the center of my life. In 2009, I received an Honors B. A. from Bard College in New York, with a thesis on French poetry during the Franco-Prussian War. Along with my work as a guide, I have also worked for over five years as a teacher and administrator here in Berlin at a language school, all the while completing an M. A. in History at Freies Universität Berlin, as well as a second MA in Holland in Media Studies. My work as a guide, in fact, has not just developed alongside these academic endeavors, but it part of them: while tours are understood by many to be within the industry of tourism, my tours in both essence and function, are first and foremost *educational*.

Countless visitors have achieved a more profound knowledge of the world, and of themselves, through the tours that I've developed, and the conversations within them that I work to facilitate. Nothing makes me prouder, and I wholeheartedly invite you to come along, for an enriching and perhaps life-changing experience!

15+ years tour guiding experience:
11+ years as a walking and bike tour guide in Berlin,
2 in Amsterdam, 3 in New York.
M.A. in History, in progress (Freies Universität Berlin)
M.A. cum laude in Media Studies (Rijksuniversitat Groningen, Netherlands)
Honors B.A. in French and History (Bard College, NY, 2009)
Languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian
Lived Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, and France.
Year Abroad in France (Paris IV - La Sorbonne)
15 years experience teaching English.

Interview Magazine, Young Artists of Berlin

2 hour walking tour through Charlottenberg, Zoo, Tiergarten Park, to end at Cafe Am Neuensee (with optional return to office)

Two hour Walking Tour

If your time in Berlin limited, and you need to get in as much as possible in a short time, this half-day tour is the one for you!

In only four hours, we will adventure through a whirlwind of fascinating sights, including the Nuseum Island Reichstag, the T. V. Tower, the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenberg Gate and the Tiergarten Park.

Berlin condensed, history wrapped into a half-a-day: a perfect mix of German efficiency and Berlin dynamics!

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