The Tiny Island on the Thames That Once Held The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and the UK’s Largest Hippie Commune

Let’s take a walk along the towpath by the Thames, breathing in the heady scent of summer. See that island in the middle? That’s where we’re headed. And I’ve got a map, so I know it’s there! Past the gently bobbing riverboats moored at Twickenham, Until we reach a single footbridge. Here we go… And we’re…

Road Trip to Afghanistan: Snapshots From the Lost Hippie Trail

Before the trail grew cold, you could once catch a bus from London to Delhi with just $45, and for a little extra, you could take the scenic route into the Indian subcontinent via Turkey, Lebanon, Kashmir, Iran and Afghanistan, stopping at hotels, restaurants and cafés along the way that catered almost exclusively to cannabis-smoking Westerners. They…

Ridiculously Cool Couples

Easy reading today folks. Call me creepy– actually, don’t call me that please, but I spend a strange amount of time on the internet looking at old photographs of famous people from the 60s and 70s. That era is just so darn cool, I just couldn’t help but find another excuse to blog about it,…

Take a Step Back in Time into these Flower Power Fashion Comic Books

Today I went in search of mindless distractions from reality. Perhaps you did the same. I went to my happy place and took a deep dive into the archives and photo pools of Flickr. There, I found these 1960s hippie-mod fashion pages from various romance comic books of the 60s and 70s. Some of them have empowering…

Vintage Muse du Jour: Uschi Obermaier

Uschi Obermaier is one of the lesser-known ‘babes of our lives’ from the sixties and seventies. When I first came across this photograph above of the stylish Bavarian beauty, I immediately began scouring Pinterest and Tumblr to find more. Setting the benchmark for sexy hippie style, let’s just have an ogle at Uschi… A still…

Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Gypsy Caravan…

Why would you want a Mercedes-Benz when you could buy a whole new lifestyle? The day that I have a backyard to park it in, mark my words, I’ll buy a gypsy caravan and turn it into my mobile MessyNessyChic clubhouse. And I found just the company to get it from… We’ve found each other by chance, my…

California Dreaming on the Last Hippie Houseboats

Hippies and houseboats; they seem to go together almost like wine and cheese. At least, they used to, especially in California in the 1960s when a mix of old beatniks and young hippies formed a community of whimsical water homes in the Bay Area… I found this photostory lurking in the depths of the LIFE archives, titled “Floating-Houses-California”…

The Neighbourhood Hippie Squat that Seceded from the European Union

The story of Freetown Christiania does, in some ways, seem like a fairy tale… a druggy, twisted, modern-day fairy tale at that, but a fairy tale nonetheless. (c) Apolasos Upon entering Christiania, Denmark, situated right in the heart of Copenhagen, a carved sign reads: You Are Now Leaving the European Union. Free town Christiania is a…

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…

Invasion of the Hippies

A pretty interesting insight here on how some people saw the blossoming counter-culture of hippies in the 1960s as a serious threat to the younger generation, or mankind even. The 1967 report by Harry Reasoner talks about hippies as if they were some kind of alien species attempting to take over the world and infect its…