La Normandie !

Normandie was simply more beautiful than I could describe so I will simply post some photos from my voyages to Honfleur et Etretat, a sun-doused weekend de Pâques.

Time to catch up

Well, over the past month or so, I have welcomed many lovely visitors to my little garret, introduced them to France's best radio station -- Nostalgie -- (I managed to find a Parisian equivalent to WJIB in Boston, a feat heretofore thought of as impossible), went to Versailles *TWICE* (where Annie communed with her inner Marie Antoinette and Caro contemplated possible condo decor) and ate tons of fromage and fatty ham. Then I did a bit of visiting myself to see Stephanie and Toffi in Berlin, then Dana graduated (she's got her masters!) and I hung out with the Glynn/Carney contingent in London. So now I am many posts behind and have tons of pictures to upload, so you'll just have to be patient!


Working in backwards chronological order, I wanted to post these pictures from my lil birthday fête at work. It was so lovely:

Valérie went out and selected a beautiful array of French Japanese pastries from the shop Sadaharu Aoki, they bought a bottle of champagne and some lovely little name candles. Then they sang happy birthday and we all tasted the deliciously magical pastries, like the green tea matcha élair (the one sporting the candles), the sesame sea weed chocolate bar, the raspberry pistachio green tea confection, the red bean tart covered in green tea dust (it's the green Etowah mound looking pastry), and tarte citron, also with some sort of bean paste. Amazing !

In these photos you can also see my awful haircut in its first stages (which would be before the mullet is really starting to set in, as it is presently). Not so amazing.