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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and ahhing over what to do this summer, I might have an idea for you. Through the grapevine (mind the pun), I heard about France Passion, a society of more than 1,750 friendly private wine-growers and farmers across France that invite [...]
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 [...]
It’s all about taking that detour and finding the beautifully haunting moments of traveling through the unknown. Walker Pickering is a young photographer and photography teacher based not in his Texan hometown, but on the road. And you won’t find him on Route 66. He’ll be taking the back roads of America, where the kudzu* grows [...]
We left Paris without a plan. Daylight took us as far as Bourges, a medieval town several hours south of Paris where we stayed in a two-star chateau on the outskirts that hadn’t saved any of its old interior charm and I believed couldn’t technically call itself a chateau because it didn’t have any towers. [...]
MessyNessy has gone on the road to refresh this old brain of mine, retrace some of my childhood steps in the French countryside, swim in the freshwater rivers, watch le boyfriend fish for trout with his bare hands and maybe find a good ghost story along the way. It’s proving a tad difficult to find [...]
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 [...]
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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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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Pretty girl bullsh** aside, the latest release from LA-based crooner known as Banks, is like one
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside
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You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do
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