Mental Floss

--Advice : If you’re looking for a hotel in Paris and prefer the Hilton chain, don’t google Pairs + Hilton

--Advice : If you buy a coat (or a skirt) that has a pleat in the back and there are two loose stitches forming an X at the end, remove these! The number of people I’ve seen in winter coats who keep this stitch in is amazing! Then, the coat ‘buckles’ in the back where the pleat is. I just want to walk around with scissors and help people.

--It seems to be a universal thing – when a subway car pulls into a station, the people waiting to get on immediately cram in front of the door, making it near impossible for the people to get off. If you’re in such a rush to get on the T car, then let the people off first!

--London is lacking in trashcans. Good luck finding one on the street, or if you do, you’re luck if it’s more than miniscule in size. The amazing thing, there’s virtually no trash littering the streets; but you do not see trash-picker-uppers walking around.

--In one of the hotels I often stay in when in Paris, I can not only touch the ceiling in the elevator, I can put my palm on it. That’s just not right.

Mental Floss

Things I've learned in London:

1) Vodka CAN freeze.
Yes, it can. Gwen's freezer is so powerful, the Grey Goose Citron we had in there actually froze.