Christmas in France
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It's Christmas in Paris. Well, it's Christmas elsewhere too, but today we're keeping it France-related.
So how do the French celebrate Christmas? And what should you go and see if you find yourself in Paris during the festive season? Where are the best Christmas lights?
All these questions and more are answered in this episode. You'll hear the (slightly croaky) voice of myself, plus Lovely Lina, coming at you from the studio in Sweden (where we're going to celebrate Christmas).
You'll also hear the voice of Fabien the Breton, who's made previous appearances on The Earful Tower, most notably teaching us al how to make galettes in a live video for Patreon supporters during the honeymoon season.
We also made reference to the 20 consecutive live videos I did around Paris, one for each arrondissement, which you can watch if you subscribe for $10 a month on Patreon here.
We also talked about the scooter video down the Champs-Elysées, which you can find on YouTube on my official channel here (subscribe).
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Yearful Tower here and ho, ho, ho. |
| 0:03.2 | Excuse me? |
| 0:04.2 | Yes, it's the Yearful Tower podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | It's Monday, which means Christmas Day in Sweden. |
| 0:10.4 | You just heard the voice of Lovely Lena. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello. |
| 0:13.3 | Now, the reason I've got Lovely Lena in the studio, or I say in the studio. |
| 0:17.1 | It's my studio, actually. It's one studio. |
| 0:19.2 | It's because we're in Sweden. And in Sweden on |
| 0:22.5 | Monday, the 24th, which is the today's date. Yes, which is the correct way to celebrate Christmas. |
| 0:27.5 | Well, that's right. You guys celebrate Christmas on the 24th. Yes, the only way. We're in Australia, |
| 0:32.7 | America, France. It's celebrated on the 25th. Seems like the rest of the world's got it wrong. Well, I think you still call the 25th Christmas Day, right? |
| 0:40.0 | Yes. |
| 0:40.8 | But that's just like a day. |
| 0:42.4 | But you celebrate it on the 24th. |
| 0:43.9 | Yes. |
| 0:44.5 | But plot twist, this year you're celebrating on the 25th. |
| 0:47.4 | I know. |
| 0:47.9 | We are. |
| 0:49.1 | Wow, the world is turning. |
| 0:50.7 | That's just Lina's family. Anyway, this episode, we figured, is a little sort of Christmas special. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm going to keep it kind of short, partly because, well, I'm sick. |
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