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The Earful Tower: Paris

Day trip to Giverny

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone!

I've just been to Giverny, where the famed Impressionist Claude Monet had his house and gardens. 

With my wife, Lina, by my side, I went to check out these gardens and I took my recorder with me. This episode is the whole day summed up in 30 minutes. 

There's picnics, cheese shops, walking, cycling, and exploring, all recorded on the scene.

Now, I left a little bit of French in there without translating - it's from the cheese shop in Vernon. The gist of the conversation is that she is talking about the Comté cheese and how it's aged 10 or 24 months. I went with the 24-month option. The rest is just small talk :)

If you've never been to Giverny I highly recommend it, this was my first time and I thought it was fantastic. 

In case you want to book the same trip I did in this episode,  it was the "Monet's Gardens Bike Tour" via Fat Tire Tours. You can find it here. They do the same tour without bicycles here.

Remember, you can get ten percent off this tour and all other Fat Tire tours in ten cities by entering the coupon code earful at the checkout, right before you pay. 

And if you're a more visual person, here's the Walk Show I did with tour guide Kit on Facebook. The rest of  the walk is for Patreon members only :)

Happy travelling!

Oh yes, and I spliced a whole song of music in here called Et Voila by Chris Haugen. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here, Full Time listeners, it is another Thursday episode, and this is going to be different to any

0:04.7

that I've ever done before.

0:05.6

You maybe already heard the car horn in the background.

0:07.8

I'm not in the studio.

0:09.1

I'm out on the street with lovely Lena, my wife.

0:11.9

Hello.

0:12.8

And we're not even in Paris.

0:14.9

No.

0:15.6

We're in Vernon.

0:18.1

Vernon.

0:19.1

On the way to Givale.

0:20.5

Like Harry Potter's uncle. That's sort of Vernon. Vernon on the way to Giovanni. Like Harry Potter's uncle, that's sort of Vernon.

0:23.2

As all you guys hopefully know by now, the Thursday episodes are brought to you by Fat Eye Tours.

0:28.1

They've, uh, Apple Tower listener in the background there, they've invited us out to Givani and Monnet's

0:34.7

garden and I figured instead of doing an episode about it from the studio,

0:37.6

I'd do it live. On the road. On the road. So what we're going to do is we're going to spend

0:42.8

the day cycling around the gardens of Claude Monet and we just figured I'd check in with

0:48.7

you before we get there because Lena and I both we've come prepared with facts.

0:55.7

Yes.

0:55.8

So Lena said she'd surprise me about a fact about Claude Monet and I'll give you what about...

1:00.7

And you said that you'll outdo my facts.

1:02.7

Yeah.

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