In the dappled light coming through the trees, a jovial bohemian crowd have gathered to dance and dally at the Moulin de la Galette, one of the many windmills that originally stood at the north...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/10/20/postcards-from-the-last-windmill-in-paris/
If you’ve ever lived in Paris or had notions of living in or travelling to Paris, a twenty year-old podcast episode from This American Life is essential listening. For the program’s 25th an...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/12/03/revisiting-a-podcast-americans-in-paris/
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/
Paris may be the City of Light, but it is filled with dark corners. Some of the best-known ghost stories were inspired by the very real, gory history of this otherwise romantic setting. Behind ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/30/a-haunting-compendium-of-paris-ghost-stories/
It’s that time of the year again. Parisians close up shop for August to chase the last rays of summer outside la capitale, turning the city into a veritable ghost town. Tourists and locals al...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/08/09/the-paris-august-survival-guide/
For our latest adventure on the Don’t be a Tourist in Paris web series, we go 30 feet beneath the city to discover the subculture of iconic midnight movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show jus...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/10/26/rocky-horror-picture-show-in-the-paris-catacombs/
Today I found a photograph of an ordinary German coffee shop circa 1941, with German signage above the windows that read “Soldatenkaffee Madeleine“. What made this photograph of a coffe...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/10/12/where-the-nazis-hung-out-in-occupied-paris/
The Montmartre annual wine harvest has been a festive Parisian tradition since 1934, but we’ve come across some photographs from the 1950s that reveal a time in the vineyard’s history w...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/27/can-can-dancing-in-the-paris-vineyard/
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...
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/
Ever tried a ‘champignon de Paris‘? The real one– cultivated in abundance and almost exclusively once upon a time in the catacombs of Paris? Having lost its roots, more commonly known ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/25/the-last-mushroom-farms-of-the-paris-catacombs/
I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre lined with some of the most delicious architecture in Paris. It’s art deco ironwork, those tall ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/04/21/the-beverly-hills-of-paris/
They say the name ‘flea market’ first originated from the legendary Paris antiques market of St. Ouen, when an unknown bargain hunter in the 1880s looked down from nearby fortifications, ob...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/08/the-louis-vuitton-treasure-hunters-of-the-paris-puces/
This week the French are celebrating Bastille day. It’s a really big deal, sort of like American Independence day and we celebrate being Frenchies and all that patriotic stuff. So I thought b...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/07/13/18-reasons-why-im-proud-to-be-a-frenchy/
Paris and New York: both have islands, both have Statues of Liberty, crazy people on the metro, and unbeknownst to most, they both have parks in the sky. Until a little while ago, I was under t...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/07/06/paris-secret-park-in-the-sky-the-original-high-line/
By ‘un café’. I obviously mean a mocha latte or a glass of rosé, along with a little tarte, maybe some madeleines and of course, plenty of undisturbed lounging time à la Parisien. (You w...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/04/13/10-places-to-have-un-cafe-in-paris/