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...
Istanbul is an easy city to photograph: straddling the East and the West, it's delightfully exotic while remaining somewhat familiar and accessible. It's a colorful city: the blues and golds of mosques and minarets dotting the skyline, the primary...
Here's the thing: I choose joy about 80% of the time (hey yo 80-20 rule!). The other 20% of the time, I let myself go into a seemingly-endless loop of personal negativity: there's not enough money in the bank, I'm not successful enough in marketing,...
Northern Europe (and more specifically, Scandinavia!) is one of my favorite regions in the world: it's a group of countries that I'm constantly recommending to friends, as well as personally scheming to get back and explore more. I traveled solo...
It's been two years since I showed up at Penn Station with a giant suitcase, a dwindling bank account and plenty of big dreams for the big city. I got onto a bus, collected quarters from strangers to pay the fare and then realized I was on a downtown...
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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.