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...
San Francisco is one of those cities that I never know quite exactly how I feel about it. I've spent a lot of time there: back-to-school shopping in Union Square when I was growing up, exploring Fisherman's Wharf whenever we had foreign exchange...
I have so many fond memories of Santa Cruz: it's essentially the closest ocean beach and boardwalk to Sacramento, and we often did day trips when I had a soccer tournament in the area or rented a house in nearby Aptos for a week. The Pacific is...
I'm back in New York City--after a glorious eight whole days in California! The trip combined work, play and family time: catching up with my family in Sacramento, a conference in San Francisco, and a wedding in San Jose. I always claim that New York...
Malibu is one of those words that evokes a certain image: even though I'd never been there before, I've always imagined it as gorgeous, ritzy, upscale, beachy. It's often name-dropped in celebrity gossip mags: a place of glass-walled, beachfront,...
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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.