In April, I visited Munich, Germany and fell in love with their open-air markets, historic beer halls and of course, the colourful shops that sold deirndls and leiderhosen. I couldn’t resist picking up a deirndl myself, I am an 1/8th German after all. Funnily enough, my last name Ast translates to “branch” in German. So whenever someone snarky says “that’s…