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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative French attractions to see… La Maison Picassiete- “The House of the Plate Stealer” Built entirely by one man, it took Raymonde Isidore more than 25 years to complete his impressive Maison Picassiette. In 1936, the middle-aged Frenchman began covering his house located [...]
If you try to go during the day, you’ll find the “museum” will be closed. In fact, during the day, the Rue Cavalotti in Montmartre is much like any other Parisian street in the quartier, going about it’s business with independent boutiques and small restaurants. It’s not until dusk that this narrow road hidden behind [...]
Piccasso is probably most famous for his affairs, his extravagant bohemian lifestyle, oh and his art too, but he’s probably less remembered as the guy who was suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. On August 22nd of 1911, Parisian artist Louis Béroud, famous for painting and selling his copies of [...]
As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the largest collection of banana paraphernalia in the world. Even more inexplicable than the museum itself (and Fred “Banana Mon” Garbutt’s obsession with bananas), is the location. Occupying a squat building along the toxic shores of the Salton Sea ‘riviera’, a [...]
The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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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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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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Yep, it’s that time again for me to open up my bag of treasures from the depths of the
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You might have heard of the cupcake vending machine in Los Angeles, but did you know Paris has
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro
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If you can’t accept the holidays are over, say I! Today was spent mostly getting lost on the
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If you try to go during the day, you’ll find the “museum” will be closed. In fact, during the
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