Best Parks In and Around Paris, Episode 290
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Laura Knott, my guest on today's episode, has a passion for parks. She's a landscape architect, and went looking for the best parks in and around Paris.
Laura made two trips to Paris, the first in Aug 2018 and the second in September 2019. The main goal for both of her trips was to explore parks and gardens in and around Paris. She had learned about those parks in graduate school, so seeing them in person was a treat!
Laura travels solo and felt safe everywhere she went in Paris. One thing to keep in mind: when visiting parks you have to remain flexible. Parks can be closed due to a weather event, private parties, or other unpredictable issues.
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- Parc de Bercy [22:26]
- Bois de Boulogne and Jardin d'acclimatation [31:33]
- Parc de Bagatelle [31:29]
- Bois de Vincennes [31:57]
- The Bosquets in Versailles [32:39]
- Parc André Citroën and the hot air balloon [34:19]
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- Annie's personal update [46:52]
- Update on doing a full immersion French course [47:26]
- Update on France re-opening to visitors [48:07]
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| 0:00.0 | This is Join us in France, episode 290. |
| 0:03.7 | Bonjour, I'm Annie Sergeant, and on today's episode I bring you a conversation with Laura |
| 0:09.1 | Naut about the most outstanding parks and gardens in and around Paris. |
| 0:14.9 | Laura is a historical landscape architect and she tells us what makes so many parks notable |
| 0:21.6 | and also so enjoyable. We didn't get to talk about all the |
| 0:26.1 | places we had planned to but Laura sent me some wonderful notes that you'll be |
| 0:30.3 | able to find by going to join us in France.com |
| 0:33.0 | for its last 290 the number 290 and then clicking on the blue button that |
| 0:38.0 | says guest notes. The Oh, Bonjura |
| 1:11.5 | Laura and welcome to join us in France. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you, happy to be here. |
| 1:15.6 | Very nice to talk to you and we are going to talk about parks in Paris. |
| 1:22.2 | As it turns out you have a passion for this and I enjoy the parks as a |
| 1:27.9 | visitor but you have a keen eye for many other things that the those of us who visit don't pay attention to that much and |
| 1:35.5 | maybe we should. So let us know about your visit to Paris when you went and what you did. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay. |
| 1:46.0 | I've been twice in the last two years. |
| 1:49.5 | I was there this past August in 2019 and then the previous September 2018 and my main focus |
| 1:58.8 | was to visit the Parks and Gardens that I had read about in graduate school and learned about in my landscape |
| 2:05.8 | architecture program and then in my historic preservation program. |
| 2:09.8 | And I had never been to Paris before. |
| 2:12.1 | So I made that my focus and a way to organize my trip. |
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