the rain in spain

...won't be a problem because I'll be in LONDON and PARIS in matter of DAYS (with Miles)!

xo,

sarah

[photo cred: fffound]

sans maquillage, sans retouches

I love the concept of the cover(s) of the latest French Elle:

gorgeous stars without make up or any sort of retouching.

I mean, HELLO.

Check out Monica Bellucci!

Simply stunning.

xo,

sarah

keep on, carry on

Help!

I need feedback!






Miles and I are headed to London and Paris for two weeks in May.
I saw this bag online at UO and fell in love.
Would it be (too) crazy for me to try to cram two weeks-worth of clothes, shoes, etc. into it?
It's 16 inches in length and relatively deep.

I've been to Cuba twice, where the bag weight limit is 20 pounds, so I'm a seasoned light packer.

Thoughts, suggestions?
(PLEASE?)

[plus, I can always put my "extra" stuff in Miles' bag!]



xo,
sarah

backpacking

Speaking of UO,
this Lil J-esque PVC backpack caught my eye when it went up for sale online the other day.

It could be perfect for my (and Miles') adventures around Paris and London this May, no?






xo,
sarah

help, please?

fall [ha! more like summer: the sequel here in t-town] is just beginning, but miles and i are trying to get the planning underway for our two-week trip to europe next may.

paris is an absolute, hands-down, no compromising city i want to visit, so i need some suggestions on cheap hotels/hostels, please! i pretty much have the "activities" taken care of, price-wise, etc. so far, some top cheap contenders are the modern hotel, the hotel orient, and a few of the many citea hotels. please, please, please offer your advice! what we need is a room:

1. that can fit 2 people in it, durkaDUR.
2. that is relatively clean. no creepy-crawlies in the sheets, please.
3. somewhat close to points of interest in paris or at least in a location close to the metro.
4. that is CHEAP. [we are poor. art history major + jazz studies major + lack of giant salaries = lack of money]. the highest i'd like to go is maybe, maybe $130 per night.

or maybe you know some good park benches?

*note: the whole french-english thing isn't a big deal. i've taken five years of french so having a hotel with a mcdonald's inside of it [do they do that?] isn't really necessary. you get the picture.


miles is interested in finding a good jazz festival to go to. the websites i've found are a bid hazy on the details...but one that seemed like it would fit in our time range was the international jazz-sur-vie festival. any info on that would be helpful! and if you know of any other music festivals, etc. that take place in paris or france for that matter at the beginning of may i would love to hear about them!


the cannes film festival will take place while we're in europe (more towards the tail end of our trip), so we're hoping to do that...


we hope to hit up a couple other cities [low budget means cutting out some locations] like copenhagen, london, amsterdam, madrid, and possibly rome or florence.



please, please, please let me know if you have any information on traveling to europe [paris, copenhagen, etc.] whether it's about hostels, where the best croissants are, must-see shops, train travel, or anything else you might have to offer! There's only so much answers.yahoo.com i can take.



happy weekend!



xx,
sarah

vive la france!

happy bastille day!

here are some tres frency things for you to look at?:

1.
the eiffel tower photo and a croissant charm? too cute.

2.
croissant. tres delicieux!

3.
nylon wrote an article on everyone's favorite french fries to honor les francaise.

4.
bastille day fireworks!

5.
let them eat cake. you said it, m.a.

xx,
sarah