Au revoir UK, Today BC and I take the Eurostar to Paris. So exciting! And yet, we’re already halfway through our trip. (Booooo.)

I was only mediocrely impressed with Paris upon my first visit when I was 16. Then, a few years ago, I went on a french memoir kick; Almost French, A Year in Provence, From Paris to the Moon, and the classic A Moveable Feast, all of which completely renewed my interest in the country that speaks the language that I’ve failed to learn a lick of after 4+ years of french classes.

But put me in a room with a marble french fireplace and I melt. They are so gorgeous. And equally so, the rustic stone fireplace more common in villas of Southern France. Oh, why isn’t my living room 5 times larger?

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