So first of all, I'd just like to discuss the word athenaeum. It's really just a fancy word for library, but I swear, the amount of head space that I have devoted to this word in the past week is insane because I a) have no idea how to pronounce it...
Paris is a city of curving rues and hidden alleys, cobblestone and courtyards. There's no grid system with numbers and letters, no even spacing and logical layout. It was built in fits and starts, expanding from the islands on the Seine to several...
We spent the long President's Day slash Valentine's Day weekend at The Dean Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island--mostly because I did a fun little Instagram takeover for The Dean, but also because I am currently obsessed with exploring underrated...
Without a doubt: the Marais is my favorite neighborhood in Paris. Part of this affinity is surely due to familiarity: my parents always rent an apartment right at Rue Vieille du Temple and Rue des Rosiers when we visit, and the streets surrounding...
So what's funny is that I feel like the standard date night in New York is dinner and a show--and yet, in two and a half years of living here, I had never been to a Broadway show! Although I've gone to musicals in San Francisco and London, going to a...
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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.