Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Nearly there… The good news is we’re half way through dry January! (Whether that has meant [revisiting your drinking habits](or just surviving the post-holiday season blues). This weekend, I personally feel like hitting the [fast-forward button to summer](. [Road trips]( will be researched, bookings will hopefully be made, and last-minute travel planning panic 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. Just this week, I’ve been beefing up our Barcelona, Egypt and England [directory pages](, and added locally-curated tips for our newest wild card city destination: Belgrade, Serbia. Curious?! Think of MessyNessy like your part time travel assistant. Don’t hesitate to reach out to the [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. 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, your weekend conversation starters await… Stay curious, [Nessy]    [The First Parisian Skyscrapers were also a Notorious World War II Jewish Camp](   [Sans-titre-3]( A relatively austere low-income housing complex in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, the Cité de la Muette is not a remarkable collection of buildings. At first glance, it’s a council estate like any other, where residents go about their daily business seemingly unfazed by the history that lies both within its walls and beneath them.…  [Continue Reading](   [We Can’t Pronounce His Name, but He Was Basically Austria’s Gaudí](   [287760918_1061499161444828_2209536364008323144_n]( If the Emerald City of Oz had ever been in need of a new architect, he would have been just the man for the job. In his fight against the “godless line”, Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s buildings swirl into the sky with undulating curves in a kaleidoscope of colours, pierced by trees and clad with grass and…  [Continue Reading](   [Oh Séraphine, this world was never meant for someone as beautiful as you](   [5D66033]( There is a line in Don McLean’s Vincent, the poignant folk song released in 1971, that always stuck with me. It goes, “but I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.” The bittersweet lyrics are a tribute to the great Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh of course,…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCXXXI)](   [319721539_1386583391747734_7000877457039943689_n]( 7. Porcelain Cameras by Mathieu Stern  [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](.