It's no secret that Connecticut is one of my favorite weekend destinations from New York City: an easy two-hour drive, and suddenly, you're surrounded by fresh air and open skies and delicious seafood and small town living. We opted for a seaside...
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,...
After a long, freezing winter in New York City, I wanted to make the most out of the good weather in Los Angeles--and that meant being outside as much as humanly possible. And one of the things that I had envied afar via social media during yet...
One of my favorite things we did on our visit to Los Angeles was rent bikes on a sunny afternoon: we visited the (unexpected and wonderful) Venice Canals, grabbed coffee at the uber-cool TOMS Store on Abbot Kinney, took a little wander through the...
The main reason why we went to Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago? To visit friends! Both my boyfriend and I have quite a few friends in the LA area, and while we didn't get to see nearly as many of them as we would have liked--we learned valuable...
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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.