Munich, Germany It could have been a great story to tell the grandkids – a truly romantic and serendipitous tale about the time Opa first met Oma while Oma was blackout drunk at a Christkindlmarkt. But, (un)fortunately, no hypothetical children (or grandchildren) were destined to materialize between myself and...

Munich, Germany They say no good deed goes unpunished and I’m really starting to think that it’s true. Whether it’s warning a friend about a person who is using and manipulating him or helping a random stranger avoid danger on the street, it seems these small-scale heroics carry with...

No hitting, no biting, no name-calling! It wasn’t that long ago that our mothers tried to mould us to be upstanding, non-assholic adults. Yet for some reason even the most basic lessons we learned as children fly out the window when it comes to online dating. So here’s a...

Munich, Germany  Maybe it’s me, but since I moved to Munich (a city with the reputation of being the loneliest one in Germany) second dates seem to be a rare and miraculous occurrence.  And since these events are such a rarity, when they go wrong it really stings. Sadly,...

Munich, Germany There is a lot of misrepresentation in modern swipe-dating these days. Talk to enough users about their top ten worst dates, and at least one will involve a case of gross misrepresentation. Luckily, I haven’t experienced this very often myself, or maybe I’m just getting better at...