Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   So I’m back in Paris after a whirlwind trip to New York (which I can report was unforgettable), but swapping bagels for baguettes doesn’t mean life is slowing down for Messy Nessy. I’ll admit I’m having a little too much fun playing shopkeeper, dressing our virtual windows with new products and arranging them just so, pretending as if we had our own little brick & mortar on the Boulevard Saint Germain. So in my imaginary Saint Germain boutique, I’ve made a new display table in the corner for my latest idea: [The Paris Prep Pack](! What is the Paris Prep Pack you ask? The three insider essentials for anyone headed to Paris: - The Don’t be a Tourist in Paris book (obviously) - A MessyNessyChic Tote bag to carry around your bible to Paris unknown. - My favourite t-shirt for letting all the locals known that YOU are NOT a tourist! Hey, wouldn’t this be a really nice way to say: we’re going to Paris. Hide the plane tickets at the bottom of the bag... Seriously though. Don’t let anyone (yourself included) go to Paris without the Paris Prep Pack. And a little discount never hurt, so here’s a 25% off code when you get all [3 essentials](. At checkout, just use the code PARISPREPPACK. Well I’ll leave you to browse. And of course, your weekend conversation starters are waiting for you below. With love from Paris, [Nessy]   [There’s a 51-Year-Old Whiskey Treasure Hunt That’s Still Going On](   [canadian-whisky](  Our dream treasure hunt? One that involves an international quest for free whiskey and a $10,000 prize, which was precisely the case in the Summer of 1967. In one of cleverest marketing ploys of advertising’s golden age, Canadian Club Whiskey hid 25 crates of its liquid gold around the globe, and adventurous consumers (of…  [Continue Reading](   [Oh, to Have Ridden England’s Forgotten Post Bus](   [s-l1600 (12)]( I never knew the post bus existed. I grew up in England’s capital, but never in my 25 years of living there did I ever see or hear of these delightful red buses that both delivered mail and served as the only public transport in some of the UK’s most remote areas. Then again, until the…  [Continue Reading](   [The Last Great Beatnik Café](   [Caffe_trieste_(5674858238)]( Behind every generation of revolutionary writers, there’s usually a time-worn café. Hemingway had Paris’ La Closerie Des Lilas; Simone de Beauvoir, the Café de Flore. For San Francisco, the cradle of the Beatnik movement – or at least, its caffeine source – was the Caffe Trieste. High on a hilltop in Little Italy, Caffe Trieste…  [Continue Reading](   [The Most Beautiful Ruin In Chernobyl](   [IMG_2366 copy]( It is the ferris wheel in Pripyat’s abandoned amusement park that gets the most attention. For intrepid explorers to Chernobyl’s iconic Exclusion Zone, the bright yellow seats of the fun fair ride provide a stark contrast to the concrete ruins, lying desolate all around. But on the outskirts of the small city, there is one particular…  [Continue Reading](   [Who is the Girl in the Paris Bathtub?](   [FramedPrint]( I took a bath in front of the Eiffel Tower once and my naked back has since gone viral on the internet. You might have noticed. People even started painting their own watercolour interpretations of this photograph and one of the Kardashian sisters recently “borrowed” it for her Instagram account. Stumbling upon my own self-portrait on…  [Continue Reading](   [Paris’ Utopian Village of Concrete Cabbage](   [choux3 (1)]( If Ernest Hemingway made Paris a moveable feast, architect Gérard Grandval made its Créteil suburb the vegetable course. Built during the 1970s, the Créteil Cabbages, or “Choux de Créteil,” are French Brutalism at its finest. The ‘utopian’ residency is composed of 10 otherworldly buildings whose balconies extend like giant, concrete petals – hence the nickname, “the…  [Continue Reading](   [Biblical Bad Girls and Their Ancient “Time’s Up” Scandal](   [f4f325aa752a1faaae87fc05776148c4--lobbies-burning-man]( Welcome to Rouen, France, a city where the cider flows freely (it’s a Normandy thing), and the streets are lined with crooked, half-timbered houses that send a singular, ye-olde message: you’re on some seriously ancient stomping grounds. Rouen’s power and influence can be traced from its founding by a sturdy Celtic tribe, to its pivotal…  [Continue Reading](   [The Lost Art of Vintage Store Front Mosaics](   [Cleary]( It is a sad fact that modern buildings rarely have the artistic flourishes and details of their forebears. Once buildings were often proudly decorated with eye catching touches, such as elaborate cornices and ornately carved door frames. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, nothing was quite as swish and fancy as a beautifully tiled…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXII)](   [4f06eacb-a8de-48ec-9103-04c894dd6e7a]( 1. This Most Excellent New Yorker Cover The New Yorker.  2. 160 Years of Ice Skating in New York City  Ice skating in New York reveals the history of social spaces in the city that helped shape the foundations of modern life.  [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessyAmbassador? [Get Your Ambassador Link And Start Sharing!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To ready more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.