Paris Love.. guest post: Sharon from My French Country Home

<div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://myfrenchcountryhome.blogspot.com/">Sharon</a> is so sweet and has so wonderfully opened her home to us when we are in France during this trip.  She is also sweet enough to share some of her favorites from Paris with you!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.la-mediterranee.com/en/"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A big thank you to Christina for asking me to guest post for her while she ............ comes to visit me!!! YAY, </div><div style="text-align: center;">OK not only me, there is also that little detail called Paris, but I am so pleased to meet Christina and her family.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Christina has asked me about my special places in Paris.  I chose a place to live , a place to eat and a place to shop ....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before we had any children we lived in the heart of St Germain on the magical Place Fustenberg, and this little square will always hold a special place in my heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tiny,  perfectly situated, it has the sort of elite feel to it as if living there made you automatically part of some wonderful private club.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2-qVE1eg6NFkDbNZfUizjT-Os59BVf40WTTfC6RGdKkvhqciC4VKZqymwf2-SjNJbwh7cyqe8Tq6Ej6J-GHrZkPPO4dwVnaygDdsPPsxrr8jTSrsny9RXha6Zd0wynqoYcvyL3oJ7IQ/s1600/the-place-furstenberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2-qVE1eg6NFkDbNZfUizjT-Os59BVf40WTTfC6RGdKkvhqciC4VKZqymwf2-SjNJbwh7cyqe8Tq6Ej6J-GHrZkPPO4dwVnaygDdsPPsxrr8jTSrsny9RXha6Zd0wynqoYcvyL3oJ7IQ/s400/the-place-furstenberg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLQUTyVCpLFyaROJdYgjWzKuESl3mkd2ADPcK8LY-auc-ULTxaTxqXtMAXI_oONc2lkFu5CqYYCTfTnc2C8S-7BdiVKdr_VBHRq69rlYQyrd25cskncKwxBlhmTNJ4tUmsEGBPsYbmQM/s1600/Im06347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLQUTyVCpLFyaROJdYgjWzKuESl3mkd2ADPcK8LY-auc-ULTxaTxqXtMAXI_oONc2lkFu5CqYYCTfTnc2C8S-7BdiVKdr_VBHRq69rlYQyrd25cskncKwxBlhmTNJ4tUmsEGBPsYbmQM/s640/Im06347.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />My favourite place to eat?  Of course there are SO many wonderful little bistrots and restaurants in Paris, I could actually provide a long list.  But my most memorable meal  was shared with my husband and our closest friends at <a href="http://www.la-mediterranee.com/">La Méditerranée </a>, fantastic setting, DIVINE food, romantic, elegant LOVE it.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Paris Love.. guest post: Sharon from My French Country Home

Sharon is so sweet and has so wonderfully opened her home to us when we are in France during this trip.  She is also sweet enough to share ...

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