Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. This is a show all

about Paris. I'd like to say it's perfect armchair travel for all you Paris dreamers out there that fancy

escaping, even if just for half an hour every week. And today's guest is kind of the perfect

example of Paris dreaming because she literally wrote the book on the topic.

I got Katrina Lawrence an Australian beauty journalist who fell in love with Paris at the age of five

and has kept coming back ever since. Her book, Paris Dreaming, is a little bit about her love for

the city and how it's inspired her. Now, I recorded this a little bit earlier in the year. I'm releasing it now.

I'm on holiday in Sweden. I'll tell all the personal news and read some emails and all that

kind of stuff at the end of the episode. But before we start, I just want to do a quick shout out.

This show is brought to you by the Patreon members. No adverts. I learned the interesting way that advertisers, especially with

pandemics and stuff, you never know what will happen with an advertiser. But one thing

you can count on is the listeners. So if you guys want to get a whole lot more out of the

yearful tower, consider signing up on Patreon. And today's guest, Katrina Lawrence, is a long-time Patreon supporter.

She gets it.

Thank you, Katrina, and it was really nice to meet you.

I'll talk a little bit more about that at the end of the episode.

But if you're already a member, I recommend you go and log on now because the scrolls, this new idea that I've been working on, you know what a scroll is, right?

It's kind of like this document of secrets that you scroll through.

And that's exactly what I've got for the episodes.

In this one, I'm looking at it now.

She talks about the Cour de Commerce, which is a cool street in the 6th Arandt this month, and I linked even to

the time I did a video with Stephen Clark down there talking about French revolutions. So this whole

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