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Category / Don’t Be A Tourist

The Last Inn on the Sea

This house might look just a tad precarious for a weekend escape to the beach, but it has quite the story to tell that I thought I might share with you. The photograph above was taken in 2009 when the house had been reluctantly declared a nuisance and condemned by the Rodanthe community on Hatteras…

10 Vintage Trailers up For Sale just in time for a Summer Road Trip

See, you’re just like me– you see a picture of a vintage trailer and you click on it! And that pretty much sums up how I ended up on my latest internet treasure trove, Tin Can Tourists. A true appreciation society for vintage trailers, Tin Can Tourists was actually founded long before the internet came…

DIY Historic Abandoned Homes For Sale!

We look at a lot of abandoned places here on MessyNessyChic; we take a look around the empty shells, wonder why such wonderful places could be left abandoned and then go about our day. But what about going a step further and actually entertaining the idea, the possibility, the dream of buying a forgotten historical…

Let this Instagram Dedicated to Parisian Floors be your new City Guide

As a general rule in Paris, I always say, don’t forget to look up. But this instagram account by local photographer Sebastian Erras proves that looking down can be just as rewarding in this city. I know it’s not the first instagram account dedicated entirely to beautiful floors (#Ihavethisthingwithfloors), but if you’re looking to discover Parisian cafés,…

An Instagrammer Searching for the Perfect Parisian Pastry

Arguably the most ingenious way to discover Paris– via its most drool-worthy pastries– graphic designer and pastry chef living in Paris, Tal Spiegel, is the man (and the shoes) behind Desserted in Paris, the instagram account dedicated entirely to the city’s best desserts. Each one is conveniently tagged with the patisserie where he found it and a…

The Grand Sugar Pink Clifftop Hotel

Not the usual Mexico Cancun or Acapulco destination, we are in the northwestern region of Chihuahua where a most eccentric and isolated Hotel Posada Mirador perches over cliffs that are four times greater in magnitude than that of the Grand Canyon. Nestled like an eagle’s nest at the edge of the canyon, coloured in “millennial pink,” otherwise known…

Paris Launched a Contest to Re-Design its Derelict, Disused and Defunct Spaces

Three abandoned metro stations, two defunct underground nightclubs, a forgotten art nouveau shopping arcade, an old Renault garage, a disused water reservoir, and a post office– these are just a few of the 34 incredible hidden sites of Paris being presented as a creative canvas for potential designers, architects and urban planners as part of “Reinvent Paris 2”. The…

A Janitor’s View of La Sorbonne University

I imagine that the school janitor of La Sorbonne University doesn’t have it so bad. When school is out and all the students and teachers have left, imagine roaming these halls and polishing the blackboards in classrooms that taught Voltaire, Balzac, Jean Paul Sartre, Marie Curie and T.S Eliot. Parisian photographer Ludwig Favre is not the janitor, nor was…

Dive into the Underwater Museum of the Black Sea

Free entry and no queues, this sounds like the ideal museum. However, this unique underwater museum is not an easy place to visit. Located 100m off the shore of Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea, visitors require at least a basic level of diving skills to take a trip. Known as the “Alley of Leaders”, this original…

Forgotten Splendour of Victorian Spa Shuttered for Decades

“We all stink. No one smells,” were the alleged words of patron Saint Bernard when speaking of Europe’s general hygiene in the Middle Ages. For about four or five centuries, the Western world suffered a hiatus in cleanliness following the great plagues, when people believed that it was actually dangerous to bathe. Water was thought to carry…

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