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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you might think you’ve seen all Italy has to offer already, but have you heard about the town built with a style of architecture so old, it predates written Italian history? (c) Paolo Campioni (c) LorisZec Welcome to Alberobello, a small town with [...]
No American road trip would be complete without a stop at a trailer park palace! So for those with a ‘kitsch itch’ to scratch (note to self: google and see if I just coined ‘kitsch itch’), Nessy has picked out three hotels in the great ol’ US of A for the ultimate vintage (and dare [...]
Like many of you, I hate being a tourist. When I’m visiting a new city, I’ll admire the great landmarks from afar and keep on moving in search of the smallest backstreets and the hidden local haunts. And this is why I write my Paris blogs, for all of you who would rather be discovering [...]
Let me be the first one to admit that when traveling, I have always steered clear of hostels. I’ve forever kept this image of a horribly grimy hostel in London that I would often pass by when I lived there and shudder at the thought. But that was before I laid my eyes on the [...]
Spying on house boats along the river Seine has sort of become one of my daily activities. When taking my evening run on the banks, I find myself focusing less on my heart rate and more on imagining life aboard one of the peniches; how I would ideally arrange the deck furniture, what I [...]
Hotels just don’t give enough giraffe these days. Luckily, I’ve found one that’s keeping up the standards. Giraffe Manor, located 20km outside of Kenya’s diverse capital Nairobi, is a five-star hotel with a resident herd of Rothschild Giraffes that roam the 12 acre private property freely– meaning they’ll poke their heads through your luxury bedroom [...]
The old Hollywood glamour, the groovy color palette, the retro facades, the kitschy wooden furniture, oh good lord the nostalgia!! Where’s my damn teleporting machine when I need it? The Saguaro hotel opened last month, just in time for the cool gang to set up camp for the Coachella music festival in April. Architects Peter [...]
This reminds me of when I used to set up borders down the middle of the room to annoy my older brother when I was a kid. Yeah, I was obnoxious. The ‘Au Vieux Panier’ hotel in Marseille, France, has a total of six rooms designed by different artists chosen from a sort of design competition [...]
This is a little inconsiderate of me. Posting an article on the world’s most alluring swimming pools right smack in the middle of a summer heatwave. While that little drop of sweat rolls down your forehead and plops onto your work desk. Not terribly kind of Nessy is it? Well tough. I’ve been hibernating inside [...]
When I was thirteen, my mother sent me to musical theatre camp in upstate New York. That sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud but it happened. American camp culture was totally foreign to me. I remember I had never been away from my parents for more than a week, especially as much as [...]
In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal
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Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t
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I love my local Bazaar. It has everything, it’s all so mind-blowingly cheap and I could spend
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely
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