Want Claire’s entire guide to Tulum? Check out her PDF! WHY TULUM? Beach, ruins, sun, jungle, glorious food and beautiful -very beautiful- people, these are just a few draws to the lovely beachside resort town of Tulum.  “Resort town” conjures up images of Cannes or Lake Como or Playa del Carmen, which incidentally is only about 45 minutes north of Tulum, […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Paris? Check out her PDF! Museums: Versailles Real talk: skip the palace, do the garden and hamlet instead.  Bring a picnic and relax by the canal.  My experience inside the palace was akin, I imagine, to sheep being shepherded to market.  Long lines, cramped, filled with screaming toddlers (one punched me in the back, no […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Paris? Check out her PDF! Overall Notes: Stock your fridge.  Paris can get expensive, and a way that I cut corners was to have one epic meal a day, and have snacks to tide me over.  Paris is the snack-iest place I’ve ever been to, and honestly, the best food in Paris are the single […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Paris? Check out her PDF! Why Paris: My work takes me to a lot of fascinating places, and when the opportunity to direct a commercial in Paris came up, I could’t help but do a happy dance about it. Paris, in many ways, is how it exists in our collective imagination.  Open boulevards, young men […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Mexico City? Check out her PDF! Cholula Cathedral A bit of a hike, but worth it for the amazing view of the active Volcano just outside Mexico City. Enjoying my first chapulín from a stall in Cholula.  These spicy fried crickets are a local snack and honestly…aren’t that bad. Way more of a crunchy textural thing […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Mexico City? Check out her PDF! Street Food Tips: – Stick to the places with the longest lines. If they’re popular, then they aren’t getting people sick regularly. – Also look for older, professional types.  Doctors, lawyers, and cops can’t afford to get sick from street meat, so they’ll be conservative with where they get their […]

Want Claire’s entire guide to Mexico City? Check out her PDF! Overall Mexico Notes: – If you want to go on a European vacation, but don’t want to deal with the jet lag of a 10 hour flight or pay $8 for coffee and $30 for each museum trip, then Mexico city is for you.  I had no expectations going […]