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December 2010

Coolest places to stay in Europe

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December 30, 2010
I've stayed in my share of places while traveling: hotels, hostels, apartments, guest bedrooms, a friend's couch, a stranger's couch. I've had good experiences and I've had bad experiences. Most of the time I'm just looking for reasonably clean,...
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A year of whim and wanderlust

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December 28, 2010
I was supposed to spend New Year's Eve 2010 on the beaches of Honolulu. Then I broke up with my boyfriend a few days before Christmas, endured the nightmare of cancelling an extremely expensive and non-refundable flight, and booked a cheap flight to...
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Postcard from Montmartre

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December 26, 2010
I've never been in love with Montmartre--mostly because so many other tourists are. I prefer the charming, still-almost-undiscovered Marais or at least the much more central Saint-Germain-des-Prés. But the last time I was in Paris, I went off the sex...
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An around-the-world address book

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December 20, 2010
When I was 4 years old, my mom agreed to host a French teenager for the summer through our local Chamber of Commerce. However, 18-year-old Sebastien wasn’t as keen as the rest of the students to visit California: he had recently fallen in love with a...
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Postcard from Antibes

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December 19, 2010
Antibes is one of my favorite neighboring towns to Nice: a glorious sandy beach, a foie gras sandwich shop, a row of amazing yachts to wander. Friends and I loved hopping on the train to spend a sunny afternoon strolling through town and then setting...
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Christine Amorose Merrill

C'est Christine is my little slice of the internet to talk travel, lifestyle and twenty- and thirty-something struggles. After stints living in France, Australia and NYC and lots of (often solo!) travel around the world, I currently live in San Diego with my husband, daughter and two pugs.

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