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The Earful Tower: Paris

A closer look at the elegant 7th arrondissement of Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I didn't know the 7th district of Paris very well until this week. 

Thanks to the mysterious Goddess of Fortune (aka Leah Walker from Paris Perfect rentals), Lina and I have landed in a luxury apartment by the Eiffel Tower for two weeks. 

Leah, who runs the social media for Paris Perfect, joined me for a chat about the 7th district, what it's like without the tourist (France's borders are still closed), and she also talks about how apartment rental companies like hers have had 100 percent cancellations. (Which is how I ended up here!).

As promised, here's the spelling of all the street names we mentioned. 

Avenue Junot, which in Montmartre is the only street not on the Left Bank (the rest are). 

Rue Jacob 

Rue de l’Université

Avenue de Bourdonnais (where the apartment is)

Her fave street was Rue Saint Dominique 

And the neighbourhood is called the Quartier du Gros-Caillou (big stone or pebble)

Find Leah on Instagram @LeahTravels (https://www.instagram.com/leahtravels/)

Find Paris Perfect here: https://www.instagram.com/parisperfectrentals/

And here is the apartment we're in, the "Bergerac".

That's it for now, thanks for listening!

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Howdy, folks, you're listening to the Earful Tile podcast. My name is Oliver G. And if you've been

0:05.2

even remotely keeping an eye on my social media lately, you'll notice something big has changed,

0:11.0

and that is my address temporarily. What am I talking about? Why? A great thing happened about a week

0:18.6

ago. Leah Walker, who runs the social media for an apartment company called Paris Perfect,

0:25.6

Paris Perfect Rentals if you're on Instagram.

0:28.1

And she said, well, I love what you've been doing online during confinement with your wife and your tiny little apartment.

0:33.9

And I wondered if you'd like to come and stay in one of our luxury apartments on the left bank.

0:41.7

And I said, what's the catch?

0:43.4

She said, there's no catch, but they're sitting empty, and we'd like to see what you can do on the left bank.

0:48.5

And I said, well, that sounds too good to be true.

0:50.7

I'm on my way.

0:51.7

And that's exactly what's happened.

0:53.3

So we've been spending the

0:54.8

past week and indeed the next week in their Bergerac, Bergerac apartment in the 7th hour on this

1:01.9

month. We're honestly, we're about 25 seconds walk from the base of the Eiffel Tower. I've got a lot

1:08.9

to say about this. It's been extremely inspiring.

1:12.9

So I keep your ears peeled for that. But today I've got Leah. So Leah Walker, you might know her from,

1:18.3

she was on the show about a year ago talking about, it was kind of an episode about the opposite of

1:23.4

being on a budget in Paris. It was like the places to go if you're ready to spend, luxury shops,

1:28.5

hotels and apartments. And obviously, as I said, she works as the social media for Paris

1:34.1

perfect rentals. Her, she's Leah travels. You'll see she's been featuring a few videos of us in

1:39.1

recent days too. So, yeah, you've met her before. That's a Texan accent, if you're into accents like I am.

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