Growing up in Sacramento does not breed a love of Southern California. We take pride in being from Nor Cal, harboring a hate of the Lakers and the smog and the traffic, a pride in our farms and lakes and mountains, and a suspicion about how genuine...
So first of all, I'd just like to discuss the word athenaeum. It's really just a fancy word for library, but I swear, the amount of head space that I have devoted to this word in the past week is insane because I a) have no idea how to pronounce it...
We spent the long President's Day slash Valentine's Day weekend at The Dean Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island--mostly because I did a fun little Instagram takeover for The Dean, but also because I am currently obsessed with exploring underrated...
So what's funny is that I feel like the standard date night in New York is dinner and a show--and yet, in two and a half years of living here, I had never been to a Broadway show! Although I've gone to musicals in San Francisco and London, going to a...
For Christmas, my boyfriend's sister received a copy of Secret New York--and I just couldn't stop flipping through it, intrigued by all of the secret history and places of intrigue that I walk by every day without a second thought. So much so that I...
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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.