Lucy Mallows

Lucy Mallows is a freelance travel writer and translator presently working in Brussels. She contributes to many international dailies and magazines and has written for all the top travel publishers on countries from Estonia to Portugal. She is an expert on Central Europe, having studied Russian, Czech and Spanish at university before living and working in Budapest for 12 years. She speaks six foreign languages, including Slovak. She first visited Slovakia in 1982 and returns regularly. She is the author of Bradt's Bratislava and Transylvaniaguides.