Cognac, Angouleme, and village life
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Hi guys from a chateau in cosy Cognac
This is episode seven of the Earful Tower Honeymoon season today it's:
Three tips for life in a small French village
A mad weekend of vintage cars in the city of comic books, Angouleme
And why you need to visit Cognac - and it's not just because of my new doorway obsession.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a Monday, it's episode 7 of the Earful Tower honeymoon season, and we're sitting in a chateau in the French city of Cognac. |
| 0:06.6 | Yes, Cognac. |
| 0:07.7 | Today we're going to give you three tips for life in a small French village. |
| 0:11.0 | We'll tell you about a mad weekend of vintage cars in the French city of comic books, which is Anguilm. |
| 0:16.5 | And we'll tell you why you need to visit Cognac. |
| 0:19.4 | And it's not just because of my new obsession with doorways. |
| 0:22.2 | Oh my God, don't get if you started on the doorways. |
| 0:25.0 | I will be going into the doorways. |
| 0:26.4 | But first, a bit of music from Slim and the Beast. |
| 0:32.6 | I'll put my back, hold on tight, |
| 0:40.3 | Let's do it together, let's go for a ride, let's go for a ride. |
| 0:53.3 | And yes, if you're joining for the first time, my name is Oliver G, and I'm sitting in this chateau with my wife, Lena. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, Lena G. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, how you doing, Lena? |
| 1:04.1 | I'm pretty good. |
| 1:04.8 | Feeling good? |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, feeling great. |
| 1:06.4 | Chateau life suits you? |
| 1:07.8 | I say it definitely agrees with me. |
| 1:10.5 | What was it? 19th century, this place? 19th it would definitely agrees with me. What was it? |
| 1:11.2 | 19th century this place? |
| 1:12.3 | 19th century, beautiful, huge stone, chateau overlooking a valley. |
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