About AnneLise

AnneLise Sorensen has penned (and wine-tasted) her way across four continents, from Barcelona to Belize City, Calcutta to Copenhagen, and New York to New Orleans. She has written and reported for guidebooks, magazines, websites, and radio/TV, including Wallpaper Magazine, New York Magazine, TimeOut, Fodor’s, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, Pulse Night + Day, and About.com. She contributes weekly on travel and food for NBC’s New York Nonstop TV, and has also been interviewed as a travel expert for NBC New York, CNN.com, Forbes Traveler, Real Simple, Sirius Radio, Budget Travel, the UK Guardian/Observer, and Self Magazine.

She’s the author of DK Top Ten Barcelona; and co-author of books to Belize and Guatemala, Spain, Scandinavia, Montreal and Quebec, New York, and California. She was also a lead editor and writer on Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: 1000 Ultimate Travel Experiences, and contributed to The Road Less Traveled, on alternative travel adventures.

AnneLise has worked as a senior and managing editor, overseeing authors and editors, and she also teaches travel writing at MediaBistro.

AnneLise’s three favorite cities? Barcelona, New York, and San Francisco, though not necessarily in that order. En route, she has mastered how to uncork a bottle of vino Rioja in five or so seconds; sipped yak butter tea in the Himalayas (an acquired taste – the salt puckers the lips, and the fat congeals in the throat); embarked on thigh-aching slogs up Maya pyramids; chased cinema – and celebrities – at a New York film festival; and reviewed restaurants, hotels, and nightspots, from Scandinavian ice-palaces (“if the woolen blanket doesn’t warm you up, the burning shot of Aquavit will”) to Brooklyn pizza joints (“Check your pretensions at the door: The slices are fat, and the pink wine’s served in a box.”)

You could say that AnneLise has travel in her blood: Her mother is Spanish, from Catalunya, and her father hails from Denmark. She was born in Germany, and spent her youth in Europe, Egypt, Southeast Asia, and the US. AnneLise is fluent in Spanish, and can banter in Catalan. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English Literature, and then worked as a writer and producer for NBC’s BayTV in San Francisco before embarking on her travel-writing adventures. In TV-land she produced two live weekly shows on films and books, where she coaxed such names to appear as Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Paul Theroux, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, and, yes, even Dame Edna.

These days, AnneLise is based in New York City, the one metropolis that continually rewards her wanderlust (and cravings for steak frites at 4am).

New York City, New York

Paris, France

London phone booth, UK

Los Angeles, California

Valencia, Spain