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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to finish this article without feeling an overwhelming urge to break out in your most ridiculously posh English accent. Two years ago, restaurant critic Simon Davis bought a 1966 Routemaster from a garage in Hemel Hempstead. The double-decker London icon [...]
(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them… On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the [...]
Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through ambitious architectural projects, but none have been quite as astounding as this one. The Water Tower, an 1870s Venetian Gothic building in South East London in its own league. The 99 ft-high Grade II listed building was once as part of [...]
As a former Londoner, born & raised, who thought she knew everything there was to know about the city, finding out that there’s been a secret Royal Mail underground train line beneath our feet for over 85 years was just a little bit shocking. A reader sent me a tip this morning about a group [...]
Paris and London: two indisputable capitals of cool. So why not make the connection between them be the coolest travel experience on the planet? Sure, when it launched in 1994, it was the most-talked about way to travel but in 2012, it seems to have lost its shine; it’s glamour, and I always get the [...]
Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of London-based or British friends about how proud they were to be Londoners. The opening ceremony for the Olympics had just aired on television and the Queen had apparently made her entrance by parachuting out of a helicopter with James [...]
I lived in London for just over 25 years and I have to admit, I never really understood what was the damn deal with the City of London. And it was even harder to explain to non-Londoners when they asked… because even Londoners are confused about. Here is a wonderfully frank, semi-sarcastic explanation for dummies [...]
The Literati: A Tale of Three Cities When I need my fix of Britishness in Paris, I don’t look much further than these guys… Hosts of a buzzing book club with cocktails and dancing all night at places you can’t normally talk your way into, this group of bright young things dart between London, Paris [...]
– When I was a little girl, I used to play ‘shop’. I set up my own make-shift retail space, carefully displaying my own clothes and toys around my bedroom and for hours on end I happily traded with imaginary customers. I borrowed the colored bills from our Monopoly game and used a real receipt-printing [...]
It has come to my realization that exactly one year ago today, I left my hometown of London to make Paris my new home. To be honest, I don’t think I actually believed I was going to stay. It was one of those dramatic life statements that I was trying to make at the time [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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