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aimee
aimee About aimee
Born and raised in Sydney, I love to write and am a journalist in training. But be warned that I can easily get carried away when I'm writing about stuff I like because they tend to read on for forever!I have an obsession for op-shopping because it can be absolutely dirt cheap and still look good. And like any uni student, I'm broke like hell but still buy stuff just to satisfy my craving for shopping.
I recently have caught the travel bug after just returning from studying in San Francisco for six months so I can't wait for my next trip to Thailand at the end of this year! Woohoo!
xoxo
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- URL: http://2threads.com/ aimee
- Gender: Female
- Locality: Sydney
- Member since: February 2008
- Last login: 25 August 2008
- Profile views: 421
- My Style:
Vintage - Favourite Labels:
Nothing in particular so as long as it looks good. - Music:
Anything that I can groove to or lets me stretch my vocal chords - House, Hip Hop, Trance, 80s music and the odd Indie sound. - Favourite Stores:
Salvos, St Vinnies or any place that sells the vintage stuff. - Models:
All of those who model for Victoria Secret. - Travel Spots:
San Francisco, New York, France, Italy, Thailand & Melbourne. - Books and Magazines:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Million Pieces by James Frey, A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, Cleo, Cosmo, YEN, Dazed & Confused.
All Blogs
Pit Stop to Philly
‘Philly’, the city of Brotherly Love, the birthplace of America, is a great place to make a pit stop at and stretch those legs after spending strenuous hours sitting in a car. Philadelphia was the place where Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence for the country. It is also home to the Liberty Bell, a popular monument of the city, representative of freedom and of course liberty [duh!]. So with plentyRead more...
Washington D.C.
Taking a visit to Washington D.C. is like taking an American history lesson - very much like the days of going on primary school excursions to Canberra but far less boring than you think.Read more...
Boston
The historical days of America still echoes in-between the office buildings of Boston’s modern city. You can take a step back into history and visit the capital city of Massachusetts with a cruisey four hour drive up from New York City. Learn and visit the historical sites of the city with the not-to-be missed Freedom Trail tours where you can be your very own Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as you follow the red-brick road. TRead more...
Art & History In New York.
Although you may not have a creative flair to create that perfect artwork with likes such as Monet or Michelangelo it doesn’t mean that you can’t appreciate good art. And there are definitely a few museums that you wouldn’t want to miss if you’re an artsy fartsy guru when you are out and about exploring New York. But if you think lingering in the foyer of an art gallery is just absolutely boring, you may walk out wRead more...
Foodie's Guide To New York.
It’s a fact, you have to eat. And as a tourist, exploring a new city, wandering unfamiliar streets you’re bound to get hungry especially when you’re in a city like New York. This place is a must for foodies particularly with the diverse cultures the city has to offer and food seems to be the common language between all of them. The much love original New York pizza slice cannot be missed with the basic vaRead more...
New York - Part 8
I admit, I am one of very few girls who do not watch Sex and the City and yes that also means I have yet to see the movie [of the year?] and I am in no particular rush to do so. Although, I must also admit, the only very few episodes I have seen of the television hit series is because of the clothes they wear – sometimes outrageously gorgeous sometimes...not so. But even still the very few outfits have always stunned me. And ever siRead more...
New York - Part 7.
Surfacing up from Wall Street subway station, you stand out from the roaming sea of people dressed in nothing but black and white; all walking at paces ten times faster than your own. It’s lunch time. Everyone has come out for a feed making visits to their local sandwich and soup hub – a popular cafeteria combo for Americans – before they scurry off into their office like mouses. And then, you are left almRead more...
New York - Part 6
The Brooklyn Bridge built in 1883, was the world’s first steel suspension bridge. During that period, it was considered to have the longest span supported of 1,596 feet by two towers. Despite the fact that time has passed and designs of bridges have accompanied to the changes, the Brooklyn Bridge is still considered to be one the world’s most beautiful bridges ever built.Read more...
New York - Part 5.
Standing lined up in a row along the footpath, they yell out in broken English familiar handbag brands like Coach, Prada and Burberry. Turning my attention to one, the young pale Chinese girl flips out a collection of laminated cards from her pocket with images of knock-off handbags before she asks: “You want? I take you go look.”Quickly taking me around the corner, she leads me to a run-down building. Fumbling
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New York - Part 4.
For Sydney it is the Opera house, for Paris it is the Eiffel Tower and for New York City it is the Statue of Liberty - one of the world’s most recognised monument. Symbolic of freedom and opportunity, the Statue of Liberty is a cruisey ferry ride off from Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. You can buy pre-purchased tickets online at www.statuecruises.com making sure you buy the ‘reserve ticket WITH monument pass’ aRead more...
New York - Part 3.
Smack-bang in the middle of New York City is Central Park, a sanctuary that makes you forget for as long as you’re walking through it, you are not in the city but rather immersed in Mother Nature.During summer, this large land mass is covered in luscious green grass, so soft that when you go barefoot you’ll feel like you’re walking on carpet. Blooming flowers and pristine clear bodies of water scattered a
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New York - Part 2.
The only way you’ll be able to get the best view of New York is to head up what once was the tallest structure of the city, the Empire State Building. It was on top of this very building that the beloved Meg Ryan was whisked away by Tom Hanks at their fatal meeting in the movie, Sleepless in Seattle. Oh how romantic! You can live your own fairytale by heading up the tower and watch the sunset from here, that way you get theRead more...
New York - Part 1.
In the next few weeks, I will be guiding you through the one and only New York City in a series of parts because it is just an absolutely awesome place that needs plenty of attention! Hopefully you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing about it! Cheers! xoxoRead more...
Napa Valley
Though it may not be as large as South Australia’s Barossa Valley, California’s wine region in the Napa Valley is where you can enjoy the endless scenery of vineyards that covers hectares of land, even if you aren’t a big fan of wine. It is located about an hour drive out from San Francisco. This will give you the chance if you hadn’t done so to drive across the city’s Bay Bridge (which I personally tRead more...
Yosemite National Park
Turn off that mobile phone, get away from that computer and tune into the tranquillity that Mother Nature has to offer. Yosemite National Park is the perfect get away place from city life. Here, a breath of fresh air actually means exactly that – there’s none of that polluted air that you get in the city. Yosemite National Park is located four hours east of San Francisco. The best way to get here is by driving where yoRead more...
Mek-ee-co!
Taking the ‘cart’, as the locals of San Diego refer to as their train service, is the easiest and most efficient way to get across the border to Tijuana, Mexico. It is a 45-minute train ride from Old Town, the transfer station in San Diego, where a train from here will take you to the border of Mexico. While wondering how much longer the 45 minute ride will be, you’ll notice looking out the windows, a change inRead more...
San Diego
Approaching San Diego in a cab watching the tall structured buildings of the second largest city in California, draw nearer and nearer feels like being back in Sydney - the roads are not enormously large, there are plenty of one-ways and it is right on a harbour. This place throws some killer parties and it all happens in the Gaslamp District, located centrally in the city and takes up about four blocks so you have plenty of choicRead more...
For the beach lovers
Driving along the west coast of the United States heading south towards San Diego from Los Angeles is a bit like Australia’s version of the Great Ocean Drive along Victoria – plenty of blue, cars and winding roads to your side. This is one of the better ways to see California, The Golden State for what it is commonly known as, and its beaches when there is time to spare – it is a lot better than taking a one hour interstRead more...
The Grand Canyon
Listed on the World Heritage List, The Grand Canyon is a rocky gorge covering just over 400,000 hectares of Arizona land. Founded as part of The Colorado Plateau, its rugged ridges dip as far down as 14,000 metres when you’re standing at the most popular look-out point of the South Rim at Yavapai Point. Begin your adventure to the dusty red ranges with a 12 hour guided tour bus leaving daily from Las Vegas, Nevada. This mayRead more...
Lights! Camera! Action!
Driving out from the car rental office and onto the six lane highways, on the wrong side of the road can take a little time to get use to it. But you’ll need to because that’s the only way you’re going to get around Los Angeles. Despite it being one of the more polluted cities in the United States, the rich and famous call it home and you can’t blame them, it’s a city that holds the stories of HRead more...
Viva Las Vegas!
Welcome to Sin City, Las Vegas where everything and anything goes. And the best thing yet is that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! The famous Strip of Las Vegas has some the world’s famous cities like New York and Paris shrunken down for you all in the one place. The sandstone walls and the tall Parthenon like columns of Caesar’s Palace replicates the luxury in which King Caesar himself indulged back in the day. WRead more...
Disneyland
Feeling like a 10 year-old kid again is liberating and where better to go than to Walt Disney’s Disneyland. Unleash your inner child while you’re there and go on every ride. The-must-dos include the famous Splash Mountain where you’ll need to be prepared to get a little wet and Big Thunder Mountain, a small but very rough rollercoaster. You’ll also get a thrill out of the Indiana Jones Adventure ride; justRead more...
San Francisco
Remember watching the TV show, ‘Full House’, a time when the Olsen Twins were once adorable, didn’t it just make you want to visit San Francisco? San Francisco is renowned as the most liberal city in the United States. In the 1960s it was home base to the psychedelic and groovy hippies. Now days, it has the largest gay population in the world. The best time to visit is during September and October whRead more...
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