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My Little Lighthouse Hotel

For anyone else who has ‘stay overnight at a lighthouse’ on their list of things to do, meet me at the Saugerties Lighthouse, a two hour drive from Manhattan in the Hudson Valley. Ditch the car and walk a half a mile up the peninsula where the lighthouse will finally emerge from the tall grass, cut…

Snapshots of a Soviet Ghost Town

Within a disputed territory on the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, spread across a valley often hidden in fog, lies the industrial town of Tkvarcheli, where the Soviet era still lives on like an evil spirit that haunts the streets. Photography by V Mulder Tkvarcheli was built in the early 1940’s Stalinist period to supply coal…

The Parisianer: A Dream Magazine

I returned to Paris early this morning after ten days of travelling in Sri Lanka, swapping a tropical climate and kaleidoscopic colours for crisp winds and grey rooftops. Unpacking my treasured souvenirs and island memories, I was admittedly feeling the blues in an apartment that seemed a little more gloomy than I had left it–…

Literally the Best Shop on the Internet: Shoppe

Here at Messy Nessy Chic– that includes you, dear reader– we are a curious bunch aren’t we? Always looking for the authentic and the unique, the homemade and the well-travelled things of this earth. And when we decide to bring an object into our homes, it damn well better have a good story. In short,…

Euro Train Tripping in the Summer of 1970

At the dawn of the 1970s, it cost around $24 to travel from London to Italy. As the train went clickety-clack, rattling through the ever-evolving landscape, two strangers could strike up a conversation over a few slices of shared bologna ham and make it last for a thousand miles. A new breed of traveler was…

Abandoned in Antarctica: The 1970s Airplane Buried in Snow

No one was injured when the Lockheed Constellation ‘Pegasus’ crash landed onto the icy fields of Antarctica on October 8, 1970. The ill-fated flight had run into a storm and was forced to crash land in impossible weather conditions. Where the aircraft dramatically slid to a halt nearly 35 years ago is the exact same position…

An Online Vault of the most Awesome Cameras Ever Made

Today I stumbled upon an incredible collection of vintage cameras– an encyclopedic Aladdin’s cave on the internet. Assembled by a French guy the name of Sylvain Halgand, we don’t know much about him except that he has collected a lot of cameras. There are thousands of different models on his site sourced from all over the…

5 Places to Disappear

Feel like you’re in need of some space to think about how you’re going achieve all those new year’s resolutions? These five remote locations I’ve chosen would probably give you plenty of thinking room … 1. Palmerston: The Island at the End of the Earth A journalist for the BBC recently did a fascinating travel…

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