Istanbul is an easy city to photograph: straddling the East and the West, it's delightfully exotic while remaining somewhat familiar and accessible. It's a colorful city: the blues and golds of mosques and minarets dotting the skyline, the primary...
Overall: 2014 was a good year. It was less about travel and more about lifestyle, less about checking destinations off a list and more about strengthening relationships and learning how to settle into a place without getting bored. I made some great...
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Although most of my time in Istanbul was spent just enjoying the city--riding the ferries, eating as much baklava as humanly possible, wandering around new neighborhoods in the sunshine--my very first stop was Topkapi Palace. Mostly, it was because...
I honestly get a little overwhelmed when I need to find a place to stay in a brand-new city: especially when the city is a world-class capital, and sprawling, and has almost twice the population of New York City. Istanbul not only has a ton of...
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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.