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Iceland’s Secret Swimming Pool in the Valley

This one wasn’t always in the guide books or on the tourist trail, but out there in the nowhere. Iceland’s oldest swimming pool, built into the mountainside in a narrow valley, has been gathering hot water trickling down from Eyjafjallajökull (I can’t pronounce it either) since it was constructed in 1923. Today it is abandoned and covered…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXIV)

1. Wonderland Inc, Kansas City, 1968 (under investigation) In 1968, Wonderland Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, was taken to court by the United States of America. The case was brought by the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. These images formed part of the case. More found on Flashbak. 2. Inside the world…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today CCLXXXIII)

1. India’s Wedding Wagons Photographer Sameer Raichur’s “Chariots of Frolic” documents the cars used in Indian wedding processions. Found on Ignant. 2. E. Lillian Todd, the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, 1906 Found on Wikipedia. 3. Chinese Ghost Village Captured by Drone Videographer Joe Nafis has perfectly captured the rare charm…

Through the Lens of Egypt’s Early Bird Tourists

Here at MessyNessyChic, I try to take you on a journey with me every time you visit our corner of the internet. And for today’s journey, I’ve decided we shall go to Egypt– a century back in time, that is. Picnicking in the temples of Luxor, clambering up the pyramids of Giza for afternoon tea…

The Photographers Who Documented the Birth of Street Style

And so ends the seasonal Olympics for street style photographers in Paris! Also known as Fashion Week, it’s the time of year when these professional people-watchers jump through hoops to capture the hottest outfits of the City of Light, taking their cues from legends such as the Sartorialist and Bill Cunningham. But the real three fathers…

Rooftops of Paris at Twilight (and other Fairytales)

You know that feeling when you see an image so appealing to your senses that you just want to climb inside right then and there? That’s what the art of Russian painter Evgeny Lushpin does. I want to be standing on that rooftop at twilight; with the warm glow of home on my back and the cool…

A Postcard from London

I‘d stayed away too long. I was born and bred in London and yet, I left the city that raised me without a second thought, a sudden and swift and cold-hearted break. Seven years passed, we had fleeting reunions, but I’d found a new love – Paris – and there wasn’t enough room in my heart for…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXI)

1. The Slate Guy Desilu Productions staffer Bill McGovern slating scene after scene of Star Trek with a nonchalance bordering on apathy. Some of the greatest scenes and most iconic characters in sci fi TV history, and McGovern, clapboard in hand, looks like he couldn’t care less if his life depended on it (Desilu was an…

Ghosts of the Little Paris Café

If I had it my way, the world would be full of cafés with hand-painted signs, customers wearing tailor-made clothing, and glasses of wine at 50 cents. While Paris has no doubt kept its old world charm better than other cities, we’ve lost countless of little family-run cafés over the generations. I know this because…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXX)

1. The Apartment doors of famous Chelsea Hotel Residents for Sale Through exhaustive research, roughly half of these large wooden doors can be traced to the iconic individuals who lived behind them, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Humphrey Bogart. On April 12th at the Ricco/Maresca…

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