1 Biarritz: The food edition

Did I mention that we ate like kings? Biarritz is in the Basque region and there is a ton of Spanish influence in everything, especially the food. The best meal by far was dinner on Friday night: tapas like mussels and octopus, and the best Sangria I've ever had. And being right on the water, it's needless to say that the seafood was outstanding.

Whole dorado with fried garlic, roasted red peppers, and parsley

Octopus with paprika and chives, sautéed in a red wine sauce

Tapas: mussels in white wine and garlic; octopus sautéed in olive oil, garlic and other various deliciousness; some sort of amazing buttery local ham with a piece of bruschetta in the middle; fried calamari strips with a tartar-like sauce; and the bombest of bomb sangria

All-star meat brochette (pork, chicken, duck and beef) with roasted vegetables, a baked potato with butter and chives, and salad with roasted red peppers

Not pictured: Prawns rolled in salmon with a sweet potato purée; seafood salad with smoked salmon, shrimp, fresh red peppers, and a creamy chive dressing; awesomely tender cheeseburgers dripping with a secret sauce (ordered from the kids' menu), and lots, lots of dry white wine

0 Travel light

When you travel, you have both limited space and a limited budget for new clothes. To say I'm tired of my clothes would be an understatement. But as the sun comes out and the weather turns warmer, I'm fantasizing about easy, breezy spring clothes: light-weight shorts and rompers, cotton tunics and dresses, and lace-up booties that look cute with all of the above.

1. Toast Chambray Shirt Dress 2. Toast Ankle Boot 3. ACNE Sensational Short

1. Heidi Merrick Painting Tunic 2. Lucca Couture Chiffon Scallop Short 3. Madewell Oxford Slingback

1. Madewell Music Hall Romper 2. Toast Linen/Cotton Button Front Pullover

2 Biarritz

I spent this past weekend in Biarritz, a seaside town in the very southwest of France. What started as a somewhat cloudy Friday turned into an ideal beach weekend - 60 degrees on Saturday and Sunday, without a cloud in the sky. I would love to go back one more time and take a surfing lesson. We may or may not have slept through ours on Saturday.

3 Resiliency

I got this flower at market on Saturday. It began to rain while I was in town, and on my walk home I discovered that the stem had snapped. But I put what survived in a small jar on my desk and it flourished and made me smile during an otherwise gloomy week.

0 "New Romantic" by Laura Marling

I was already loving this girl, and then she sang about Ryan Adams and I loved her even more.

via daily poetics

1 25 Pictures

I took this idea from Kate at For Me, For You.

1. Someone I spend a lot of time with


2. A picture of myself


3. A picture of someone in my family


4. A picture of something that makes me happy


5. An old picture of myself


6. A pictue of my sibling


7. A picture I never posted on my blog before


8. A picture of someone I miss


9. A relative of mine


10. A picture of my favorite place


11. A person I can tell everything


12. A picture of my everyday life


13. A picture from a place I love


14. A picture that reminds me of old times


15. A picture of friends from my childhood


16. An unusual picture


17. A picture of my spare time


18. A picture I'm satisfied with


19. A picture of the people closest to me


20. A person who's always there for me


21. A picture from a time in life I miss


22. A picture from last summer



23. Someone I'm always having fun with


24. A picture I always laugh about


25. The latest picture of myself

0 Teaser

Here is an uber-short video of me performing "Fields of Gold" in Bordeaux last Wednesday night. My camera battery died.. I'll charge it next time.