THE MONTH OF AUGUST has only just begun and already it is becoming increasingly difficult to be our usual workaholic...
THIS WEEKEND was gin & tonics and the tennis and the Euro 2016 finals as well. Weekend paella is also becoming...
ON MONDAY NIGHT THERE WAS a Strawberry Moon — have you ever heard of anything so lovely? Such a moon was...
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING on the terrace in the golden late-spring light for the past week, making days at the office...
P’s BROTHER ARRIVES in just a few days to visit (our first guest in this city!) and two days after he...
THE CITY IS ALREADY beginning to get a little quiet, for it would seem that many have already left on...
THIS WEEKEND we tasted Lobster Paella for the very first time; there would also be a sushi picnic by the...
WE HAVE BEEN spending time at the beach in the startlingly lovely Spanish sunshine and having homemade nectarine salsa and tortillas on the back...
THIS WEEK’S LINKS include a lovely place in Paris and an Italian countryside retreat, little black dresses and little white dresses and...
THIS WEEKEND was like summer and we spent much of it outside in rose gardens and beneath palm trees. Late Saturday night,...
HERE, NIGHT HAS ALREADY FALLEN — the sticky humid, mid-summer kind, with the rambunctious chatter of passersby on the streets...
THERE IS A LAGOON about ten minutes by car from the city, past the greenhouses filled with tomatoes, past the rice...
SOMETIMES THE SIMPLEST THINGS are the most perfect things — the feeling of summer sunshine on your face, waking up...
WE HAVE BEEN SPENDING the week on the beautiful island of Ibiza, returning home on Friday. It was easily one of the best weeks ever -- there would be striking turquoise waters and pale pink sunsets...
THIS WEEKEND, THE SUN SHONE brightly and we lingered over morning coffee on the back terrace, listening to the distant...