Thanksgiving in London

I hope everyone who celebrated had a happy Thanksgiving! I was recently reading a food blog by an American who lives in Paris (who shall remain nameless bc the last thing I need is to publicly flame a much-more-visited blog than I have!), and the guy went off on how Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated [...]

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San Sebastian: pintxos, and Elkano in Getaria

One of the best things about San Sebastian (in fact the thing that sets it apart from the perhaps-better-known shore town in Basque country, Biarritz) is its beach and boardwalk. Jon and I loved our runs along the boardwalk, past the Playa de Ondarreta and down to the Paseo del Peine del Viento. The boardwalk [...]

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San Sebastian – Getaria – Bilbao

With our trusty rented Peugeot, we were able to make a day trip to Bilbao, stopping in Getaria for lunch. Getaria is a small fishing town just 15 minutes west of San Sebastian along the A-8, and we passed some gorgeous seaside scenery on the way. Like seaside towns the world over, Getaria is perched [...]

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Mugaritz Restaurant, San Sebastian, Spain

On Friday night, we had a 10 pm reservation at Mugaritz, (Aldura aldea, 20, Errenteria). The instructions you follow from San Sebastian (from the restaurant’s website) to reach Mugaritz are laughable, but they’re dead accurate. Example: “You’ll go past the Al Campo hypermarket. Drive on for a further 3 or 4 km, going up a [...]

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San Sebastian, Spain: Back to Bacalao

Jon and I are on a long-weekend trip to Basque country (aka the part of Spain that’s near the border with France). We landed in Biarritz (France) yesterday, where it was pouring rain and gray outside. Not ideal when you are planning your weekend on the coast. At some point during our 40-minute drive from [...]

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Remembrance Day and Avenue Q

This past Saturday was the 11th day of the 11th month, and at the 11th hour, the UK observed a two-minute moment of silence in honor of Remembrance Day. While living in the U.S., I am pretty sure I have made my share of Veteran’s Day jokes (usually along the lines of its stature as [...]

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Hakkasan, Soho

Jon and I ate at Alan Yau’s Hakkasan yesterday night. I tried to come up with some kind of American restauranteur analogy (“Alan Yau is the Danny Meyer of London”), but no analogy is quite right. The guy started the big London noodle soup chain, Wagamama, where you sit at long, sleek communal tables and [...]

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Amsterdam and the NYC Marathon

Sadly, I have not been eating or cooking anything photogenic or worth describing over the past few days. However, in my slow-but-sure quest to write up all our wanderings in the last 12 months, I finally created a page about our trip to Amsterdam this past May, so please have a look. In other news [...]

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Happy Guy Fawkes Night

Today is Guy Fawkes Night, which is a holiday that falls on the 5th of November every year. The holiday is a cross between July 4th (fireworks) and Halloween (mischief making, kids asking for pennies, and occult-like bonfires), as far as I can tell. This past week, Jon and I have heard and watched fireworks [...]

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The Office

Because I now carry around my camera (for the sole purpose of capturing moments of interest for my blog), I couldn’t resist taking photos at work today. The sun was setting (around 4 p.m., argh!) and casting a beautiful light on the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf. The photo above is the view from my desk. [...]

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Happy Halloween

This year, unlike the past, oh, ten years, I decided to celebrate Halloween. Jon and I dressed up in costume and went to a Halloween party over the weekend (he went as a hippie, and I went as a mime – together we made up the combo “peace and quiet”). Celebrating Halloween this year felt [...]

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