Boston 2017

At the end of June, I was very lucky to attend my friends Jessica and Aimee's wedding in Boston. I've known Jessica since high school so it was a real honor to see her get hitched and celebrate such a life moment. It was great to eat lots of food, hit up the dance floor, and catch up with friends. 

No surprise, but right when I landed I had to go to the French pastry chain, named after yours truly - PAUL. With only limited locations in the U.S. I try to make the most of time (and appetite) when I know there's a PAUL close by. After grabbing a pastry, I headed up to Burlington, MA where the wedding was held at a beautiful working farm. Post wedding, I was able to spend sometime walking around downtown Boston with my friend Sharon before her flight that Sunday afternoon. I'll be posting photos in the next coming weeks. Until then, enjoy these photos of Boston. 

Boston Harbor.

Boston Park Plaza hotel. Where I stayed at Sunday night.

Virgina (Part 2)

Whenever I go home I've been making it a point to go to one of my favorite bakery chains, PAUL. It has many franchises in Paris and London and beyond, but has only a handful of locations in D.C. and Boston. I'm not sure why it hasn't branched out to New York or Chicago, but they would definitely have a committed groupie waiting in line on opening day if they did.

Below are more photos from my trip to Virginia. After the big baptism day, I caught up with my friend Jenna, who has a congressional internship in D.C., I got to see Peter and Leslie's home in Winchester, VA, I had dinner with my great Aunt Lee and Uncle Milt, and I also go out to dinner with friends Flannery and Xuan. I was lucky to meet Xuan and Ryan's adorable baby Sierra. 

I had a fantastic weekend home eating lots of food and seeing lots of friendly faces. Looking forward to going home in the fall!

Aound London Town

This past week I was very lucky to be able to join my good friend Angela in London for a couple of days. It was a trip in the making you could say for years. Ever since I met Angela several years ago in New York, our many shared interests inevitably would culminate in a get-together overseas. I am sure that we'll have many more adventures to come.

In the series of blogs I'll be breaking down all the sites (mostly museums) about my trip, to share all the photos I took and all the  experiences I had within my short but very fulfilling trip. I'd also like to quickly say that I wish Blogger would enable me to share my photos in a photo gallery format, but it doesn't seem to be capable of doing that right now. So until then (if it ever does) I will have to continue to share my photos in long and expanded blog posts.

In this entry I wanted to post places and things I came across that I found really interesting, but I only was able to briefly encounter. London is a vast city with vast experiences, so I'm sure down the road I'll have to return to try to see more of things I didn't get time to see this past trip. 

Below are photos of Hyde Park, Paddington Station, which had a bronze sculpture of infamous Paddington Bear, Selfridges department store, Liberty department store, which my friend Samantha and her boyfriend Andrew took me to, Fortnum & Mason department store, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus, other various public transport stations, and PAUL, which is my namesake boulangerie, scattered around several locations within the city and I love it so much and that I ate at it several times.

Stay tuned for many other posts and more fancy things from London!