RH Note: Necessary Linkage is a semi-weekly collection of current and helpful tidbits from around the internets, curated by the lovely Marissa Hussey, who’s honeymoon was one of our first features.
Trains, planes, and automobiles
I know so many people who say that their favorite way to travel is by train. And how could it not be? Not arriving a billion hours ahead of time! Putting all of those travel vocab words you learned into practice! Absorbing the landscape of the country you’re in! Keeping your shoes on through security! There’s such a spine-tingling, old-fashioned romance about traveling by train, and this Flickr set has some gorgeous shots of this mode of travel.
The local honeymoon
Traveling overseas in the midst of a recession can seem out of the question right now, but this culinary tour of Montreal from Fodors.com makes Canada look just about as romantic and gastronomically-enticing as France. I wonder if we’ll find that continental honeymoons were on the rise over the last year or so? I think this article proves that staying relatively local has plenty to offer in the way of romance. Even if I’m still sore about Sunday’s gold medal game.
Giving “clingy” new meaning
Most people wouldn’t associate death with honeymoons, but let’s face it: you’re curious about where folks’re buried. (Think about how many people visit The Catacombes or Pere Lachaise in Paris, or the ossuary below Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.) But this might be the creepiest/most awesome I’ve seen yet. The Hanging Coffins of Sagada in the Phillippines would be something my husband would be totally into, and I would really not want to go to, but would go anyway claiming it was because I loved him to earn myself some points, but really it would just be out of morbid curiosity. In any case, places like this give you good reason to snuggle up to your S.O. for safety.
Shiny, happy people holding hands
Totally changing gears, I am just drooling over this South African wedding from Junebug Weddings. Bright, contrasting color schemes look absolutely stellar in photographs, and inevitably add a vibrancy to your day, and this couple hit it on the nose. There’s something so undeniably happy about those bright yellow bridesmaid dresses against the green grass and blue skies. You can’t not smile!
Marissa’s first journey out of the country was on a school trip to England (since then her anglophilia has truly known no bounds). She throughly enjoys seeking out all things “delightfully Internet-y” to share with her friends.
