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...
My background and beliefs when it comes to health are a weird mix of holistic and traditional Western, a balanced hybrid of yoga, acupuncture, meditation and eating healthy with a well-stocked medicine cabinet.
Staying healthy is a...
One of the reasons why I blog is simply to have the space to write: getting things “on paper” helps me to process my feelings and organize my thoughts. I also love having a record of my life over the past few years: a place that holds all of my...
For Christmas, my boyfriend's sister received a copy of Secret New York--and I just couldn't stop flipping through it, intrigued by all of the secret history and places of intrigue that I walk by every day without a second thought. So much so that I...
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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.