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Le pharmacie: French beauty products
You know how you never seem to exhaust a tube of lipstick or finish an eye cream before buying a new one? Well, when you live in uber-expensive Switzerland and have been using smuggled-in American beauty products for months without stepping foot in a department store, you do. In the days leading up to my week-long stay…
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My expat mantra: Je ne regrette rien
I came across this bracelet while window shopping in Paris and I just couldn’t leave without it. I have long loved French singer Edith Piaf and her famous ballad “Je ne regrette rien,” but the song has taken on new meaning since I’ve moved abroad. The title of the song literally means “I do not…
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Simple Summer Recipe: Spicy Glass Noodles
As much as I love living in a country with standout bread and cheese, there is not a lot of spice around these parts, so I find myself craving the exotic. We used to satisfy these cravings with a once-a-week Thai takeout night back in the States–but with the insane restaurant prices in Switzerland, I’ve…
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Restaurants on the Road: Do you play favorites?
When we were in Cannes this past weekend we did a lot of things differently from how we usually travel–due mostly to the fact that I simply did not want to plan anything. I usually love planning, but for my birthday I wanted to relax and kind of see where the weekend took us. The…
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Two Days in Cannes, France
Three days before our trip to Cannes I looked up the weather forecast and found “100% thunderstorms” predicted for the whole weekend. Not just rain symbols, not just lightning, but red exclamation points indicating “severe, dangerous weather.” Floods. Hurricanes. Apocalypse. To say the least, I was bummed. The French Riviera/Cote d’Azur/South of France/whatever you want…
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This week I am…
…booking a ticket to any one of these cooler-than-cool swimming pools (#25–wow!) …learning a lot from these uber-British travel etiquette rules. …laughing over this hilarious dog grooming trend. Only in Japan. …applauding San Francisco on being the #1 city for … (answer). …wearing this as much as possible and pretending I’m French. …mulling over this thoughtful letter from…
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One Week in Jamaica: Jake’s Treasure Beach
Last week I found nirvana at Jake’s Treasure Beach on Jamaica. I do not throw around that word lightly. Within an hour of checking into this quirky boutique hotel on the south side of the island I had already reached a level of relaxation I’ve been trying to achieve for months in yoga class. As…
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Paris: Faire une pique-nique
Pique-nique (picnic) is one of my favorite French words because it is spelled phonetically as if someone with a heavy French accent is trying to say picnic: peek-neek. It is also one of my favorite things to do in Paris because it is easy on the wallet and there is no open container law. It’s a win-win,…
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Paris: Cafe culture
Spending a few hours lolling around a Parisian cafe is the very essence of la vie française, but I think many Americans find the task somewhat daunting. Our cultural differences become very apparent at the cafe. Let me explain. Despite my secret longing to be reincarnated as a French woman, it still took me a few…
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Paige Langton 