As Chris and Marissa know, you can’t go to a city like Paris the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame (below) or the Arc de Triomphe (above). She advises avoiding the Metro to make the trip great, “Just the walks alone, to and from these places are worth it.”
The Catacombs of Paris, below, were something I personally [...]
Marissa Hussey and Chris Avello — who just so happen to be our rad neighbors in lovely downtown JC — took full advantage of autumn on their London and Paris honeymoon. Chris, a Manager of Business Development at an audiobook publisher/Obscure Record Store Finder, and Marissa, an Online Marketing Project Manager at a publishing house/International Chatterbox, jetted [...]
El Ateneo Bookstore
El Ateneo was one of those things we read about, but had no idea how cool it really was until we stepped inside. It’s a grand, old theatre turned bookstore. We’re both big readers and could happily spend hours browsing.
We headed straight up to the upper levels to look down on the whole [...]
La Boca
La Boca is one of Buenos Aires’ most famous, and infamous, neighborhoods. We were warned — by blogs, guidebooks, and even our taxi driver, “muy peligroso” — that it could be a dodgy area for tourists. A working-class neighborhood, La Boca is equally known for its muggings and its world-famous soccer club, the Boca [...]
