It seems like you no longer have to be in Scandinavia to get ‘Scandi vibes’. You just have to be in Munich.

Scandinavian-inspired stores seem to be everywhere in Munich. I asked Homegirl Store founder Medo Diet what drew her customers to Scandinavian fashion. When I first walked through the streets in Munich, I felt far from my home in Denmark. And yet in those same streets, I kept encountering something familiar, like small postcards from home. Read More

Note to self: Never let a good stereotype get in the way of a good love story

How a pair of feet went from soaking in the Gulf of Thailand to resting contentedly on a couch in Munich, with a few judgmental stops along the way. What comes to your mind first, when you think of Germans? Irrationally long sausages? Maybe uncanny punctuality? I think of thick socks, perhaps pulled a bit Read More