Traveling to Germany?

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Traveling to Germany?

We’ll help you plan the best vacation ever!

Start by downloading your FREE Germany Travel Planning Checklist

Traveling to Germany?

We’ll help you plan the best vacation ever!

Start by downloading your FREE Germany Travel Planning Checklist

We share the best places to visit, food to eat and places to stay to make your Travel Planning Ultra Easy!

Our goal? To make sure you love Germany as much as us.


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Hallo! Ich bin Sharon.

I’m the founder and main writer on Germany Footsteps. I’ve been exploring Germany for over 20 years, and I can’t get enough. I love the culture, the food, the attractions and the countryside. It’s all stunning.

My aim is to provide you with a complete resource for your visit to Germany as well as the encouragement to go!

All our content is written from our personal experience. I travel around Germany as much as I can to ensure the content on this site is up-to-date, incredibly informative and helpful for you whether it’s your first trip to Germany or your twentieth. It’s a hard job but someone has to do it.

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