Cathrin Baumbach

I was born and raised in Arnstadt, in East Germany. From a young age I was fascinated by foreign languages and cultures and received a BA in English translation from Leipzig University. During those college years, I spent my summers backpacking to Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. When the Berlin wall came down in 1989 I immediately started catching up on travel to other parts of the world, and eventually moved to the United States in 1995 when I was offered a temporary job too good to be turned down at the Franklin Mint. There I met a wonderful Englishman, and the planned 18-month stay quickly turned into years.

In 2001 I found Untours, joined the Swiss Untour team, and finally migrated to the Central and Eastern Europe Untours. I greatly enjoy the diversity of my responsibilities at Untours, the company's values, my kind colleagues and the opportunity to connect with people from other cultures.

I love anything to do with the outdoors: picnicking, cross-country-skiing, swimming, hiking, biking and kayaking. I am also a cat lover, gardener, classical music fan and vegetarian hobby chef. I feel right at home in many destinations, but my heart belongs to Greece and its people, and Switzerland with its amazing mountains, lakes and hiking trails. I dream of reopening the Berlin Untour and setting one up in Dresden.