Hi everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all about Paris

and sort of interesting people in Paris documenting my interesting finds in the city of lights.

Today, I want to tell you a story. About a year ago, if you guys who are new around here, you might

don't know this. About a year ago when the first severe lockdown ended,

we ended up staying in the 7th Aeron-Dismont in a Paris Perfect apartment. And for two months,

we explored Paris from a whole different side of town. We were living in Monmouth before that.

And while a lot of things were closed, we still got a really good feel for this district,

the district with the Eiffel Tower, the Muzi Dorsi, the San River, really lovely place.

And I was like a kid in a candy shop going wherever I could, looking wherever, you know,

looking inside courtyards, you know, trying to get into old fascinating buildings, marvelling at the architecture.

And one of the shops that was still open were the pharmacies, because obviously it was

deemed to be a necessary store. And I found one on Avenue Rapp and Rue Edmont-Valent.

So it's on the corner of those two streets in the seventh,

and I went in one day, it was for nothing serious before you get worried, and it was a year

ago, so you shouldn't be getting worried anyway. I walked in there, and I was just amazed

by the details in the pharmacy. And I get chatting to the pharmacist and I point to the sort of these original

wooden fittings behind. All this, all the stuff in there was modern except, you know, the ceiling

and the cupboards and some of the signs were quite old. You know, there was a sign for

alcohol de montes, like mint alcohol, which was some kind of cure for something who knows

I was just looking around taking pictures and we got chatting and it turned out that this pharmacy

was about a hundred years old and the more questions I had the more she was really getting into

it telling me the story about it all really lovely lady lady. And then she said,

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