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Once upon a time, you could buy a ticket from London to Calcutta for less than the cost of a ticket from Paris to Rome. The year was 1957, baby boomers were still teenagers on the loose and flo...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/05/03/all-aboard-the-giant-hippie-bus-from-london-to-calcutta/
With their exquisite facades in pastel shades, replete with balconies, pointed gables and elaborate monograms, the Vohrawad mansions are a wonder to behold. One could easily be forgiven for ass...
What put Southern Indiana on our radar? Mysterious utopian experiments and end-of-the-world 19th century religious cults of course! The beautiful historic town called New Harmony was once home ...
Don’t I always say you can find absolutely anything on the internet? Well, I said it to someone recently. Anyhoo, I came across a collection of “Do Not Disturb” signs from hotels around t...
For some lucky theatregoers, a trip to see the latest B-Movie at their local picture house also means a trip across space and time. It’s all thanks to the atmospheric movie palaces and theatr...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/10/19/the-enchanted-cities-hiding-in-movie-theatres/
‘Roll up! Roll up! for the mystery tour’… a mystery indeed, given the chaos that subsequently engulfed The Beatles on their return from India to the West in 1968. Following the ground bre...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/07/20/a-spiritual-revisiting-of-the-lost-beatles-ashram/
Today, we’re pointing our compass to an alternative seaside town – the Arctic island city of Tromsø, Norway, known for over a century as the “Paris of the North” for its blend of mainl...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/23/an-arctic-seaside-town-they-call-the-paris-of-the-north/
Next to pasta primavera, star forts have to be one of the coolest things the Italians ever made. Dreamt up in the 15th century to withstand onslaught of a little something called cannonballs, t...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/05/21/a-bucket-list-of-star-cities-scattered-across-our-globe/
Ah, la douce France! Cobblestone streets and cafés lost in time, quaint little ancient villages surrounded by vineyards, heart-achingly beautiful architecture and skylines, just like you’ve ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/05/13/france-is-that-really-you/
If a French chateau is a little out of your vacation budget, why not consider a cave house? Unforgettably unique and even more historic, the “troglodyte” homes of France; those ancient rock...
Deep in the Himalayas you’ll find Bhutan, an ancient kingdom with an equally ancient Buddhist monastery that is bound to make you blush. It’s called Chimi Lhakhang, and it’s a temple ded...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/03/14/a-pilgrimage-to-the-ancient-penis-monastery/
Our dream treasure hunt? One that involves an international quest for free whiskey and a $10,000 prize, which was precisely the case in the Summer of 1967. In one of cleverest marketing ploys o...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/02/02/theres-a-51-year-old-whiskey-treasure-hunt-still-going-on/
I think this is the shot that got me hooked on the Magdalena experience. Yup. It’s got everything I could ever need in an Instagram photo: abandoned building; check, ghost town; check, vint...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/09/16/instagrams-most-adventurous-naked-hippie/
Trailer parks just don’t look like this anymore! What I wouldn’t give to go back 50 years and re-do the American road trip just like I picture it in my mid-century kodachrome dreams. Today...
Escape from Paris? Yes, sometimes even the truest Parisphile needs a little break from the romance of this concrete jungle in exchange for some country air. We arose early to the sun gently war...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/04/13/from-paris-to-provence-in-under-an-hour/
Okay, here’s a bit of a naughty one (come on, it’s Friday). Photographer Elliott Erwitt went spying on the beautiful people of St. Tropez for us in 1978 and came up with these pretty rad ph...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/30/the-summer-of-78-in-st-tropez/