About Anthony
Born in the port city of Fremantle, Australia, I first pulled anchor at the age of 18 to spend a couple of years in Europe and the US, mostly in London and Berkeley (California). I also spent three fascinating months hitchhiking through Southern Europe and the Balkans. Returning to Australia, I studied comparative literature and later Russian at uni in Perth and Melbourne before moving to Germany, where I've been living for over two decades. During that time I've researched, written and coordinated numerous guidebooks for Lonely Planet, mostly on Germany, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary, and I've also contributed short stories to LP travel anthologies. In 2008 I travelled much of Siberia and wrote "Siberia, A Cultural History," published by Oxford University Press/Signal Books. Travel and writing are my passion, and although I'm keeping the day job, I love writing and recording music and jamming on guitar with fellow musos in my spare time.