Spring Racing Carnival is when Melbourne wakes up from a sleepy winter, puts on its nicest fascinator and heads outside to sip champagne in the sunshine.
While Melbourne Cup is the biggest event of the year--falling on the first Tuesday of...
When the sun is shining, when I'm sipping a latte with perfectly frothed milk, when I'm watching the sun set over St Kilda beach--I think, I could stay here forever. I could live here. I could raise a family and have a career and own a dog here. I...
Wellington is a crisp, clean city: laid-back, orderly, vibrant. It's easy to list the adjectives, but harder to capture the feeling: Wellington seems authentic, happy, sure of itself. The anti-authority graffiti that runs rampant in Paris, where the...
I wasn't sure what to expect heading to Wellington. I booked the trip on a whim: a sorority friend was living there, the USA was playing Australia in the Rugby World Cup on a Friday night, and the plane ticket was cheaper than going to the other side...
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Christine Amorose Merrill
C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.