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My first views of Prague were from a run down bus station. Ever see the movie Eurotrip where the characters accidentally end up in Bratislava? Not far from my initial impressions. Fortunately my worst fears weren’t confirmed. Prague actually feels unbelievably touristy and it was difficult to get a feel for the real city without […]
By our stop in Vienna, the tourist bug had found me again and I was inclined only to do those things found in my trusty Rick Steves Europe 2008 (Stockholm snafu long forgotten). While my shopping ventures never strayed from simply léché les vitrines, Vienna is a small enough city that I was never far […]
Okay, so most retail loving midwesterners have at one time or another visited Chicago. It’s without a doubt the New York of the midwest minus the glitz and glamour. My weekend visit was spent with two girls that I went abroad with in London, Katie and Lauren, and our french little brother, Jules. We stayed […]
Touted as one of Europe’s cultural capitals, Munich was great for all the usual trappings: museums, shows, food but not fashion exactly. Sure, the shopping was decent (from the big names in luxury to small, specialized boutiques) but either everyone in Munich is a tourist, or fashion wise, they might as well be. We spent […]
Stockholm was in a word-snorzilla. Rick Steves, author of the be-all-end-all in guidebooks (whose advice I follow blindly never before to my detriment) says Stockholm is the European city he’d most like to call home. An hour or so into my visit and I was prepared to call Stockholm many things…home not making the list.
Our […]
Copenhagen is a fashion lover’s dream. It’s certainly known as a design city but in my opinion, it borders on fashion capital as well. Every woman I saw, I longed to be wearing what she was wearing. It seems no one has mastered tough femininity (if you haven’t guessed, it’s my favorite look) like the […]
Amsterdam is a cool city even if your interests lie outside the scope of sex, drugs, or wooden shoes. Personally I was after waffles and early Netherlandish painting but I couldn’t help but throw a little style watching in between. And the watching was good. Dutch women opt for a style that’s laid back and […]
Spanish women, those living in Barcelona anyway, are just plain sexy. It’s effortless, laid-back sexy too, ironically, the most difficult to attain. We didn’t do much shopping in Barcelona but from the upper deck of my double-decker tour bus, I could tell, wherever their clothes are coming from, Barcelona’s women aren’t wanting for style.
Spotted: floaty […]
The first stop on my European tour is Liverpool to visit my friend Jemma who I met last summer in Paris.
Perhaps it’s just the type of girl that would chose to spend a summer there, but my Paris bffs are the most fashionable lot you could imagine-Jem is no exception.
Jemma, born in Liverpool but raised […]
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