Hello everybody. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. This is a show all about Paris,

all about France. My name's Oliver G. I'm an Australian bloke here in Paris. Usually I do an

episode where I have a guest. We talk about Paris. We talk about their life. All unscripted,

very kind of loosey, goosey conversation, but not today. No, sirry, Bob, today, it's just me. You're stuck with just me,

and I'm going to tell you, it's a bit of a, it's kind of, you know, in France, in Paris, you can eat a meal

when you go into a restaurant or a kind of, you sit on a terrace, one of the easiest meals that you

can order is called a planch, a plonche, a plonch mixed even. A plon planche mixed that's like plunge means like plank and it's a bit of wood

or a shopping board and they put a little mix of chacutri so dried cold cuts of meat and cheese

and you sit there with a bunch of friends and you pick at it and often you can count it as a dinner

if you're anything like me anyway this episode is going to be a bit of a plunge mixed.

I'm going to be telling you the story as you read in the title there about how I went out

to the hamlet of Mary Antoinette in Versailles just this week.

And I'm going to be reading a bunch of emails, reviews, letters, answering questions.

I'm going to splice it all together like a plums mixed. But first, before we get

into the episode, this episode, the Thursday ones, are brought to you by Fat Tire Tours. Fat Tire Tours.

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