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A Cozy Weekend Guide to the Cotswolds

On a whim, as weekends are best planned, we hopped over the English channel to conquer the Cotwolds (and as many pubs as we could possibly fit inside of 48 hours). All winter, I’ve been longing to revisit the English countryside, tuck into a Beef Wellington with a pint of ale beside the roaring fireplace of a…

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Vintage Pocket Guides to Syria & Beyond for the WW II American Soldier

As someone who writes a guide about the city of Paris and searches for off-beat travel, I can relate to the language of pocket guides. I guess you could say it’s kinda my thing. But what if I wasn’t writing for the leisurely wanderer? What if instead, I was writing for a young, newly-enlisted soldier headed off to war…

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A Guide to Falling in Love with Old Town Panama

“I could live here”, I said like a broken record roaming the streets of Casco Viejo, Panama’s old town. It can be your Buena Vista social club, an open air gallery of street art, a time capsule of French colonial architecture or a living, crumbling museum of rich Latin American culture and history. It is the very…

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10 Romantic Things to Do in Paris (OTHER than Love-Locking on a Bridge)

So you might have heard about our famous “love-locking” bridges in Paris giving way under the strain of thousands of padlocks, calling for authorities to block the practice with preventative barriers. It’s a tradition which has fast become a total and utter tourist cliché. The sheer amount of padlocks simply shows that there’s nothing unique about it. So while the love-locking bridges…
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24 Hours in Porto, the Ghost Town Coming Back to Life

I‘ve just got back from a fascinating three days in North Portugal, first stop–Porto. They say it’s a ghost town in the making, where the youngest and brightest have fled and left the city to the elders, and the sorry state of many of Porto’s beautiful tiled townhouses wouldn’t convince you otherwise. But squeezed in between the…

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Tonight, I’m Taking You Out to Dinner in Paris

It’s a special occasion; a first date, a wedding anniversary, a birthday, that all-important business dinner and you need something just a little more fancy than your average corner brasserie. Choosing the perfect restaurant in this city is harder than you would think and after nearly three years in Paris, I’ve done my fair share…

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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…

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…

Here’s What to Buy a Nostalgic Old-World Traveller

They would rather blow their budget on a voyage aboard the Orient Express than take the low cost the airline. Travel heroes include Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway and Wes Anderson’s “Darjeeling” brothers. Preferred mode of transport: time machine. If this fits the personality of the person you’ve been struggling to find a gift for, you’ve come to…

The Ultimate Gift for the Curious Traveler

Do you mind if I borrow you for a second? You see, this isn’t really a blog post for you, it’s more of a blog post for me, which I’m trying to pass off as a blog post but in fact, it’s really just an elaborately disguised Christmas gift hint for my family and friends. But since you’re here…
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