You know, I've always been fascinated with the Chateaus of France.

Let me just put some perspective into the Chateaus of France before we get into today's episode.

There are said to be around 40,000 of them.

So 40,000 perspective.

If you were to go and visit a French chateau, a different French chateau every single day,

it would take you 110 years to see them all. Now, what you need to know about Chateau every single day, it would take you 110 years to see them all.

Now, what you need to know about chateaus is typically, and I'm really making this simple,

typically they're either old and medieval built as sort of fortresses to protect from potential

invasions, or they're typically very beautiful built in the Renaissance style to show

wealth and a kind of opulence in the countryside or the community where they were built.

What's always fascinated me about the chateaus is who lives in them, who owns them and how do

they make it work, especially in this modern era

where the internet has allowed what we want very small communities to be absolutely enormous.

So in today's episode, I'm going to delve into some intriguing ways people are making

chateaus in France work. My name is

Oliver G. This is the Earful Towers A-B season and C is for chateau. There was some original music once again from our Maestro press max, and I'll talk about that

song in particular again in a second.

But let's talk about Chateau's first.

If you listen to this podcast for a long time, you'll know that I have featured a lot of

them on this show.

A lot.

Even going as far back to when I first moved to France in those early years, I celebrated

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