Dogsledding was never at the top of my bucket list--until one of my friends raved about it. It was one of the things I was most excited to try during a winter escape to Quebec City, and I'm pleased to say that it exceeded all of my expectations. Not...
Times Square is not a favorite destination of many New Yorkers (dare I say any?). Although it's on many bucket lists and usually at the top of a first timer's what-to-do-in-New-York itinerary, it's not someplace that most people (aka me) want to...
Fun fact: my mom worked in Quebec City for a summer in the 1970's, selling mini-bus tours of the city! It was during the summer when she was a high school French teacher in rural Pennsylvania (her whole crazy life story, including her stint as an FBI...
After spending a weekend in Quebec City, my main question to myself has been: how the heck did it take me so long to get there?! It's only a two-hour flight from New York City, but it feels like a world away: between the winding cobblestone lanes and...
After working in Los Angeles last week, I drove out to Palm Springs for a weekend reunion with my college girlfriends: we celebrated a 30th birthday, a new baby on the way and more than nine years of friendship. I flew out on the red-eye on Sunday...
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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.