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Category Archive: shops

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By Marlene | Published: 10. October 2012
Whenever anybody would ask me for travel tips for Copenhagen, I had to secretly ask my friends there for help. I might be (half) Danish. But as much as I love Copenhagen, I hadn't been to the city for more than a few days at a time since I was a teenager (and nobody ever asks me for tips on where to buy cheap beer). I finally couldn't resist my memories of [...]

vonhey

By Marlene | Published: 28. September 2012
"Where do you see yourself five years from now?" I used to dread that question in job interviews. I could never quite figure out what the right answer should be. Because it probably wasn't what I could truthfully hope or say ("I see myself being... happy?"). And I don't think that's necessarily what they wanted to hear. So whatever I came up with in these [...]

le shopping

By Marlene | Published: 5. October 2011
28 kilos - that's how much the scales read when I checked my luggage at the airport yesterday. My suitcase had curiously gained eight kilos in Paris. The summery temperatures, the beautiful crowd in the Marais, the perfect shopping companion and just the city itself all made it far too easy to whip out my credit card. Here are some of the shops that I blame [...]