
Travel Profile: Culture Addict
From: Mexico City
Age: 29 years old
Lives in: The Netherlands
Occupation: CEO & Founder @ Mint Flamingo
Favorite City: Hamburg, Germany
Hidden gem: The Cotton Club Blues Bar
Instagram: @marianamijares
Why I love to travel: “Through travel we can close the bridges of xenophobia”
Lost in Translation:
The first time I traveled to Germany I thought the ‘ß’ in Straße was a type of ‘b’, so I would ask for directions to ‘Einstein Strabe’, and no one could understand me. During my first German lesson, 3 years later, I realized that ‘ß’ is actually a double ‘s’, so it would be Strasse, which means street.