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Some of us may dream of relaxing at a serene beach villa or a cosy little cottage nestled amidst a luscious landscape, but if a popular new category created for the Airbnb market is any indicat...
Wes Anderson did it again with another eye-feast of aesthetics in “Asteroid City”, set in futuristic quasi-mid-century Southwestern United States, a barren desert setting reminiscent of New...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/07/13/vacationing-with-wes-anderson-the-american-motel-edition/
It’s as American as Apple Pie in all its neon-lit glory, evoking our collective cultural memory of 1950s road-tripping, film noir fugitive hideouts and the golden age of kitsch. The motel i...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/06/01/the-bittersweet-story-of-the-worlds-first-motel/
Where is the best place in the world to die? According to Hindus, dying in the sacred city of Varanasi brings liberation –mukti– no matter your faith or religious denomination. If someone n...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/12/06/check-out-when-you-die-varanasis-death-hotel/
When most people think of secrecy in Washington, DC, they probably think of the FBI, the CIA or the Pentagon. But just south of Embassy Row, nestled behind the façades of five row houses, ther...
Lost in the Atlantic Ocean, nine islands thrust out of the depth of the sea in a fiery birth created by seismic activity. The archipelago of the Azores, said by some to have even been the fragm...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/09/23/the-azores-secrets-of-europes-hawaii/
It’s becoming an annual tradition to take a summer trip down south with my girlfriends and this year is no different. We’re six friends with a similar budget (around 65 euros a night per pe...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/03/19/vacation-house-hunting-in-the-south-of-france/
In the mood for something cozy and pastoral for fall in Paris? Something “cottagecore” – internet slang for all that is effervescently au natural. Think gingham tablecloths, and cottages ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/08/27/how-to-do-cottagecore-in-paris/
Back in 2013, we broke a story about a couple that bought an abandoned chateau and started a blog to share their journey. Widespread interest, longing and general FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) ens...
A nineteenth-century poet once described the Place Dauphine as the ‘vagina of Paris’, because of its erotic triangular V shape. Rumour has it King Henri IV modelled the place after the priv...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/02/10/my-perfect-little-paris-attic/
Is it just me or is there something about precariously-positioned hotels called “The Belvedere”? Remember this one I found while ‘location scouting’ for Wes Anderson? Well, I’ve found...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/06/14/welcome-to-the-time-capsule-railway-hotel/
I embarked on an off-beat hotel trail and wandered the cobbled streets of the city in search of alluring homes away from home in Paris. I suppose this little guide might also come in handy fr...
There was a time when these floating hotels that have rested on the lakes of Kashmir since the 1800s, were host to movie stars, artists, writers, famous musicians and wealthy western travellers...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/27/the-forgotten-houseboat-hotels-of-kashmir/
A stone’s throw from a medieval sea fortress in the heart of Morlaix Bay in Brittany, France, on a little rocky island with a 19th century lighthouse and a white and powder-blue cottage, your...
They might easily be mistaken for playhouses fit for a princess, like Marie Antoinette’s little hamlet houses at Versailles, but these pint-sized castles dotted around France were in fact des...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/07/11/the-french-castles-fit-for-a-pigeon-literally/
So today is the day when everyone is about to lose their sh*t because the World Cup is starting. Personally, I’m a little less enthusiastic about football, but never one to miss out on a good...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/06/12/my-brazilian-world-cup-cabana/