Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. And if you think there's a bit of a

spring in my step by the sound of my voice, you're exactly right. Because today I'm taking you with me

into the bar, or as most people call it the Hemingway Bar, but you're soon to learn that that's incorrect.

I went in there, not just with any old person. I went in there with a Hemingway herself. I went with Claudine

Hemingway, a relative, a somewhat distant relative, but a relative nonetheless of Ernest Hemingway.

We sat in the bar that's named after him on a lively Sunday evening, and we just chatted. We

chatted about Hemingway, we chatted about the Ritz, we chatted a lot about cocktails. And we talked about Claudine Hemingway herself. And we talked about the Paris

tours that she gives in the footsteps of Hemingway himself. Now, I should mention this show is brought

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Learn French.

I'll be talking about them at the end of the episode as well as reading out a little bit of Gmail.

But get comfortable, get excited, maybe get a

martini. I don't know if I should encourage you, especially if you're driving. Maybe don't get

the martini, but get ready because you're about to join me in the bar Hemingway, one of the fanciest

bars in the city of Paris on a kind of a lively night, in fact. You'll hear some background noises.

You'll hear the clatter of expensive glasses

on expensive tables. But just to set the scene, as we sat down in this beautiful bar, I should

add, it was fashion week, so there were all these beautiful models left and right draped over all the

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