Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Nearly there… You’ve almost made it through dry January! (Whether that meant [revisiting drinking habits](or just surviving the post-holiday season blues). This weekend, I’m personally hitting the fast-forward button to summer. Road trips will be researched, my bookings will be finalised, and last-minute travel planning panic will be avoided. If you’d like to be in the same boat, don’t forget that it’s kinda my specialty – that is … helping people avoid forgettable vacations. Think of MessyNessy like your part time travel assistant. You’ve got our [Travel Concierge](: a personal email hotline to ask anything, anytime – be it helping you shape the perfect French vacation or finding somewhere to stay in a remote village in the North Pole. We’re here to inspire and research all your bespoke travel needs. An MNC Keyholder membership also comes with unlimited access to a library of [Travel eBooks]( + an [A-Z Destination Directory]( of quickfire tips at your disposal + [City Restaurant Guides](, Road trip Maps & more. So if you’re ready to leave dry January behind and start dreaming of summer, [give the MessyNessy Vault a try](. You can cancel anytime. And in the meantime, cozy up with your weekend conversation starters… Stay curious, [Nessy]   [You’ve probably Never Heard of the Most Fascinating Woman of the Belle Epoque](  [Camille-Du-Gast-automobile-Panhard-930x713]( Corsets could be blamed (among many things) for preventing a lot of women throughout history from living their best lives, but Camille du Gast was not one of them. She was a self-styled “exploratrice” with a mind of her own and a penchant for speed. If you weren’t familiar with any women pursuing race car…  [Continue Reading](   [A Crash-course in French Yé-Yé Pop Culture](  [tumblr_pwgdk6sDTO1tzpr0yo1_640]( While the Beatles were singing “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah” in England, continental Europe was forming its own musical phenomenon. The French called it, Yé-Yé, literally derived from the “yeah! yeah!” lyrics that had become the sound of British and American rock and roll.  [Continue Reading](   [Fitzgerald’s First Love: Literary Muse or Victim of Plagiarism?](  [page0-22]( Like her mother and grandmother before her, Ginevre King was named after Leonardo Da Vinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci. And she had many parallels with the Italian aristocrat: King also came from immense wealth and would be most remembered for how she was depicted by one of her era’s most famous creatives, in her…  [Continue Reading](   [The Weird and Wonderful Wheels of Jay Ohrberg](  [tumblr_3642476abd45505235ec2a0db3aa72d1_cc44f1a5_1280]( He has designed the “Ghostbusters” ambulance car, the “Knight Rider” car, the RoboCop car, the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle'” van, the Pink Panther mobile, and just about every impressive televised car worth a mention. Step aside Elon Musk, this truck driver and stunt racer turned carmaker from Illinois is arguably America’s most creative and innovative…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXXVII)](  [810f7f44ac29078c1db7dce9e42700f9-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152]( 1. This insane Connecticut Castle listed on Zillow  [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](.