About Sandra

Hello & Welcome to my website - I am so happy you are here!

As you may have guessed from the title, I share healthy recipes, travel tips and a little bit of lifestyle and personal growth here and there. I know, it is a bit of a mix and not just a recipe blog. But I have so many passions and do not feel like picking a niche. Instead, I have created this website as well as my YouTube channel which goes by the same name to share my life and my passions with you. Within most of the recipe blog posts you will find direct links to my YouTube Shorts Feed - I post quick sort of cook along videos to show how I am preparing a specific dish. I love having a visual tutorial to see for example the consistency of the sauce, the dough etc. and get a visual tutorial of the process.

Now, who exactly am I?

My name is Sandra and I live in the most beautiful city in Germany: Hamburg. I have been working as a flight attendant for the past 12 years (time literally flies in my job) and as much fun as it is, I want to create something that combines all of my passions and interests. A creative outlet that is all me.

My first passion as a teenager was to create my own little food plates that looked very aesthetic. I have always appreciated a plate of food that looks colorful and put together with thought and a little effort. My parents were repeatedly impressed by my dinner creations! Eventually, working out and caring about my looks and my body became another interest of mine (no surprise there as a teenage girl growing up in the early 2000's with Victoria's Secret Models as the idealized standard of how women's bodys should look like in society's eyes).

I started reading fitness magazines and worked out after school, went to dance classes (I did ballet 3x per week). Finishing school in 2013 I immediately started working as a flight attendant (I was 19 years old). To have a back-up plan, while working full time I did my Bachelors Degree in Political Science, Administration, and Sociology. For the record: I hated studying so much and I honestly regret spending so much of my time and energy writing term papers and essays. But I got it done and have a degree now that I will most likely never use 😀

Anyways! After travelling the world for 12+ years now I have seen a lot of different places, experienced an abundance of joy and absorbed cultures all over the world. Oh, and most importantly: I tried and tasted a lot of foods! So I reckon this is how my passions all came together. My love for a healthy lifestyle that combines working out and eating healthy (but dark chocolate every day is a non negotiable!) and traveling as my job and in my free time. For that reason naming my website HealthyTravelLife was an easy choice. Because that is my life. And this is my story in a nutshell (:

Love and sunshine,

Sandra