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Joy Anderson

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2023

After decades of writing about family travel, meetings and incentives, and German Christmas Markets, in 2016 I relocated from New York City to Paris where I took a break from journalism but have now returned as a freelancer to travel writing, my first love.

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