Without a doubt, the best $50 I've spent this year was on a membership to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: it's opened me up to a whole world of blooms! Although it's free on Tuesdays and Saturday mornings, it's been great to have the freedom to go any...
The new Whitney Museum of American Art in the Meatpacking District is only a few blocks from my office, but it's taken me a while to get there. It's been on my list since opening last May, and I finally made it happen on a rainy day last weekend. My...
A certain magic falls over New York City every spring: for a few brief weeks, trees turn all shades of white and pink, sidewalks suddenly bloom with daffodils and tulips, and temperatures climb blissfully into the high 60s with the sun shining. The...
Times Square is not a favorite destination of many New Yorkers (dare I say any?). Although it's on many bucket lists and usually at the top of a first timer's what-to-do-in-New-York itinerary, it's not someplace that most people (aka me) want to...
There are some posts in the archives that are just as relevant now as they were when I wrote them (up to six years ago!). Once a week, I share one of my favorite posts that I still love to read today. Enjoy–and please forgive the use of Instagram...
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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.