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

1. A Late Poet’s Houseboat for Sale A bohemian one-bed, one-bath Sausalito houseboat that once belonged to Shel Silverstein, the late author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, listed in March, now asking $390,000. The author lived on a former WWII military boat christened the “Evil Eye”. Silverstein moved into the converted wartime tub…

That Christmas When Parisians Ate the Zoo

As a Parisian, I’ve learned a lot about the second time the German army occupied the French capital during the Nazi invasion of WWII. But what about the first time the Germans took hold of the city of Paris? One forgets they managed it twice. The winter of 1870-1871 was a traumatic time for Parisians, an ordeal that…

The Charming Village with a Billion Dollar Secret

Disguised by two seemingly innocent village homes, none of the locals of Cochem knew that for two decades during the height of the Cold War, 15 Billion German Mark– the vault of West Germany’s central bank– was being stashed below the streets of their sleepy town nestled in the slopes of the Mosel valley. As…

The Secret Newspaper Published from inside a Prison

Doftana Prison sits abandoned near Romania’s Carpathian mountains. Its foundations have been rocked by earthquakes, its roofs have been brought down by heavy snow and storms, and every winter the building crumbles a little more. There is still enough remaining to show the scale of the place and a sense of how a prisoner’s life was,…

Gandalf’s London Pub that Launched a Thousand Ships

There’s something about mixing history, battered fish with chunky chips and a good ale that I can’t resist. I love English pubs and everything they stand for, but there are some that are particularly special; that have outlasted multiple eras, withstood wars and in one case … launched a thousand ships. Welcome to The Grapes,…

The MessyNessyChic 2017 Holiday Gift Guide is Here to Save You

Relax! I’ve got you covered. As your personal purveyor of all things unique, off-beat, thoughtful and chic, it’s my pleasure to bring you the annual MessyNessyChic holiday gift guide; the only list you need on the internet! So forget you’re gift-giving woes– it’s beginning to look a lot like … cocktails! A Castle for Christmas…

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

1. French Facade Fakery Facades is an ongoing series by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (previously) which strips isolated buildings of everything but their forward-facing exteriors. It reminds me of another photography project that turned Paris into a giant film set. Found via This is Colossal. 2. A Peephole Cinema A tiny theater hidden in an alley in…

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

1. Underwater Works By photographer James Casebere. 2. Beneath Antarctica’s Sea Ice Whoever you are, whatever you do, your job is almost certainly boring as hell compared with the researchers who spent the last six weeks diving beneath Antarctica’s sea ice to study alien life forms on the ocean floor. Found on Earther. 3.…

This Time Travelling Instagrammer got Stuck Somewhere in the 1950s

Diners, Cadillacs, neon signs and ice cream pastels– Leah Frances, eats, sleeps and breathes American nostalgia. She is the Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer behind American Squares, my latest “where have you been all my life” instagram discovery. This is an account for bingeing on vintage Americana, predominantly stuck in the 1950s, sometimes jumping back to the…

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

1. Gustave Eiffel’s Swiss Villa Getaway Villa Claire, named after his daughter, was Gustave Eiffel’s preferred place of rest when he wasn’t building giant iron towers or attempting to engineer the Panama Canal. In Vevey, Switzerland. From a collection at Musée D’Orsay, prints for sale on Muzeo. 2. Just a Tennis Court inside a…

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