So in Albania, the Number of Abandoned Bunkers is Kind of a Problem

Once upon a time, during the Cold War, Albania’s paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha forced his country to build 700,000 bunkers, one for every four citizens. Today, the country is still trying to figure out what to do with his concrete mushrooms that have become synonymous with the landscape. A number of them have been creatively…

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24 Hours in Aveiro, the Candy-Colored “Venice of Portugal”

For the last leg of our little Portuguese road trip, we floated into the old port and fishing town of Aveiro, about an hour south of Porto. It’s known as the Venice of Portugal, except of course, without the Venetian price tag. The Mister and I checked into a perfect little yellow fisherman’s house along the…

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Check out the Most Eccentric AirBnB Pad in NYC

Do you remember that time we discovered the ‘Museum of Every Object you can Probably Think Of‘– that old farming estate in Parma, Italy with an an archive of more than 60,000 everyday artifacts masterfully arranged around the old house? Well I think I just found its stateside equivalent right in the heart of Williamsburg, New York. Welcome to…

Might I Suggest This Dollhouse for Your Stay in Paris?

Cheaper than most hotel rooms you’ll find in Paris, widen your eyes for this ‘doll house’ maisonette situated inside a charming paved courtyard that is available to rent through Airbnb for just … wait for it … €80 ($113) per night! That Paris trip you’ve been day dreaming about just got serious. Come on, let’s snoop…

Find your Inner Hippie at the Trippy AirBnB Pad in the Hollywood Hills

The seventies are back. Come on, be excited! You might recall they had another style comeback some time in the 90s (I was in the 8th grade trying to pull off flared jeans), but this time around, I’m really ready for it, having spent the last several years on this blog educating myself about such eras and absorbing the mood, the colours…

Sleep inside a Designer’s Cabinet of Curiosities Boutique

Here’s how it usually works with me on the internet. I’ll stumble upon a single photograph of something that looks curious and intriguing and I’ll follow that image down the rabbit hole to the other end of the earth, literally. Today I came out the other end of the rabbit hole in Australia after finding a…

All Aboard AirBnB’s Airplane Apartment

There’s nothing ‘economy’ about this getaway home whose front porch also happens to be an airport boarding ramp– and a very welcoming one at that, with an orange nome waiting for you at the door. AirBnB never fails to disappoint in tempting us with some of the most unique homes around the world and this one is…