Escape to Paris with Monica!

Ciao, TBF readers! I'm Monica, aka Chessa from Ciao, Chessa! I'm so excited to be guest blogging here today while our Beauty Guru, Ms. TBF, is away. Of course I'm insanely jealous that she's off sunning herself in Hawaii and I'm here freezing in New York City but I'm thrilled that she is on a much-deserved vacay.

One of my favorite modes of procrastination, other than stalking photography websites and fun, stylish blogs like TBF, is to dream about travel. My number one indulgence is taking vacations and luckily I married a guy who shares this passion. Ever since I was a girl I've loved to look at maps and study cities and roads in different countries. I'm the girl with the guidebook in her face reading about the big sites and the hidden gems, the girl looking for the fabulous must-try restaurant, trying local food and drink and looking for the fabulous shops. And, of all the places I've visited, the one that we keep going back to is my beloved Paris. I left a piece of my heart there when I studied and lived there while I was in college. I've never quite been the same..Paris does that to you.

Of course it's freezing there right now too but I'm dreaming of sipping a cafe au lait (and if I wasn't pregnant a delicious, pre-dinner Kir Royal) in a lost corner of the Latin Quarter, wandering around the Île Saint-Louis enjoying a Berthillon sorbet, lounging in the Champ de Mars and looking up at the Eiffel Tower, eating and shopping my way through Les Champs d'Elysees and the Latin Quarter, strolling through the Jardin des Tuileries, people watching pretty much anywhere, strolling along the Seine, window shopping in the Place Vendome, the Galleries Lafayette, and the trendy Marais and walking through the long halls of the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay or the Picasso Museum, my favorite museum in my favorite foreign city. Le sigh...

What about you, dolls? What's your favorite destination and procrastination go-to place?

All images taken by me on previous trips to the City of Light.



































Today's Soundtrack:
Carla Bruni - L'Amoureuse