Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Ready for your checklist? 10 things to do before summer’s over: - Take a wild card weekend adventure [somewhere totally unexpected](. - Complete one last DIY project while you still have some free time. [Tattoo your walls like the French]( or [cover your kitchen in cork]( or build [a conversation pit](! - Make sure the last of your summer photos look [more like this](. - [Experiment with the unexpected elegance of straw craft]( before the fields are harvested of their wheat. - [Apply]( for your own free private island for next summer - [Tango]( under the moonlight - Don’t give up on [that Italian dream](. - Plan to start your own 21st century “[Parisian salon](” for the fall season. - Celebrate the end of swimsuit season with [a food-themed weekend road trip](.  - Enjoy one last book, preferably one that starts with [Don’t be a Tourist in…]( Here’s to an Indian summer. Stay curious, [Nessy]   [Hitchhiking By Train To Amtrak’s Ghost Town](  [IMG_7873]( “Are you sure you want to get off here?,” asks the train conductor, and with good reason: for it is nighttime at Amtrak’s least used railway station. Indeed, Thurmond, West Virginia is so remote and rarely used, that it is a request stop on America’s nation rail network:  [Continue Reading](   [Hawaii’s Forbidden Island and the Real-Life Swiss Family Robinson who Controls it](  [Niihau_cliffs_aerial]( Picture what Hawaii might have looked like before it was colonised; a paradise in the tropics, frozen in time and largely untouched by the trappings of the 21st Century. Welcome to controversial island of Ni‘ihau, also known as “The Forbidden Isle”, depending on who you speak to. Only, you’re not really welcome, unless you’re invited…  [Continue Reading](   [A Chat with the Van Gogh of Typewriter Art](  [230721_HorhamHall09]( Famous celebrities, historic English buildings and city skylines: What connects all of James Cook’s art pieces is they are made with an unexpected tool, an old or unwanted typewriter. From Essex, Cook first learned about typewriter art while researching Paul Smith, an American artist with cerebral palsy who honed the craft over 70 years. Cook…  [Continue Reading](   [Hidden Under a Chicken Coop: The “Louvre” of Wine](  [Screen-Shot-2018-06-12-at-19.49.01-1]( One of the world’s most prestigious wine cellars isn’t where you think it might be. It isn’t nestled beneath a grand chateau or presidential palace, but buried in the backyard of an average Joe, a retiree of humble background who has been collecting the rarest wines, bottle by bottle for the past 50 years.  [Continue Reading](   [Is a New Black Wall Street Breaking Ground in Georgia?](  [Screen-Shot-2018-06-12-at-19.49.01-1]( 2020 was a year of civil unrest and uncertainty, but it was also a catalyst for social justice, unity, and change. Many people saw an opportunity during the lockdowns to better themselves and their communities, both individually and collectively. One monumental example of this type of unity is with the birth of Freedom Georgia, a…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXV)](  [il_1588xN.3177215670_6wox]( [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read 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](.