The view from plane on its descent into Nice Airport was fairly intoxicating. Rippling sparkly sapphire sea blending into sandy beaches that snaked around coves and inlets, hills hotch-potched with villas and distant green hazy mountains. Suddenly the view changed to tarmac and with a bounce of the wheels and a jerk of the brakes the plane touched down. Et voilà I was on the Côte d’Azur.
♥ Antibes
♥ Traveling Tomorrow
I am going away tomorrow. As I am off to the South of France I had hoped to hit the meteorological jackpot, but when I checked the forecast instead of a row of perfect yellow sunny symbols, I found predictions of heavy rain and low-ish temperatures.
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♥ My Day
Unfortunately in some sort of changing of the meteorological guard the warm sunshine disappeared and today was greyish and overcast in these parts.
♥ Royal Wedding Party
Up at six to make sure that everything ran to plan on the big day, no not the royal wedding planner but my friend C who was hosting a wedding party for friends, including moi. We were seated in front of the television well in advance of the eleven o’clock start of the ceremony. C made sure we all had a glass of chilled champagne and offered around some delectable food.
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♥ Summer Tote
A couple of weeks ago when the weather started to get a little warmer I swooped over bags, as the one I was carrying around had a distinct wintry feel. I bought the camel tote, you see in the image above, earlier this year in the January sales at a respectable fifty percent discount.
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♥ James Joyce: Ulysses & Lemon Soap
One of the book clubs that I am a member of has as the current book choice James Joyce’s Ulysses. Deep breath. Neill Smith says on the BBC’s website “the book has fascinated scholars and baffled readers for decades with its dense prose, obscure puns and allusions to the characters and events of Homer’s epic Greek poem The Odyssey.” Deeper breath.
♥ Coffee in Dublin//Two: The Merrion Hotel
Walk for a couple of hundred yards in central Dublin and you will inevitability pass a couple of cafés. The quality and the price of the cup of coffee on offer will be variable. In almost all cases you will have to linger as you wait patiently for your turn for service and hope that there will be a table free by the time your reach the head of the queue.
♥ Happy Easter
The weather has been glorious in these parts over the last few days, mainly warm hazy sunshine. Today started off with a wintry chill but thankfully the sun came out to cast a glow over everything this afternoon. The curtain call on the recent sun-bathed days has been a series of beautiful sunsets like the one below. I took the photo as the sun went down over the Wicklow Mountains on Easter Thursday evening.
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♥ Style Icon
I wrote a while ago about Parisian Chic, Ines de la Fressange’s aptly titled book see here. I am fascinated by her look and she is one of my style icons. If you are similarly obsessed with her, you might like to read this recent article in The New York Times click here.
♥ Royal Wedding and my hat
Naturally I haven’t been invited to the Royal Wedding, I am not disappointed, as I never expected a Royal summons in the first place. I am sure that being at Westminster Abbey on the 29th April will be an amazing experience for the select few, there are however some downsides. The general congregation has to pitch up at the Abbey’s North entrance between 8.15am and 8.45am and as the wedding ceremony doesn’t start until 11am that is a lot of hanging about. Plus there is the anxiety inducing decision of what to wear and the possibility of your choice being dissed by the fashion flock section of the media. Still the fact that I won’t be at the Abbey doesn’t mean I am in a sartorial stress free zone.
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Just Add Attitude
Just Add Attitude 