While living in Australia, I fell in love with scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Since then, I've explored underwater in Hawaii, Thailand and Indonesia (where I earned my certification to dive!). I've always equated snorkeling and scuba diving...
I'm never sure if I love or hate the term "hipster." Living in the Lower East Side, I'm just a river away from the ultimate hipster enclave of Williamsburg: I love the incredible cafe and bar scene, the funky fashion and the quirky ways that people...
While the architecture in Reykjavik is charming, colorful, functional--it's not exactly cutting-edge. The one exception is HARPA. Finished in 2011, it was originally part of a redevelopment effort that was abandoned when the financial crisis...
Here is the transcript of the conversation we had about 27 (or more) times a day on our road trip around Iceland:
"Wow. Just, wow," said Aly.
"Oh my god ICELAND IS SO BEAUTIFUL," I said.
I didn't even realize that I had captioned three...
Confession: if you mentioned the word "Petra" to me before I went to Jordan, I would have looked at you blankly. I don't remember learning about it in history class, I've never really seen it mentioned on bucket lists or guidebooks, and it's been...
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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.