Day trips from Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Annabel Simms, a British woman who has explored the surrounds of Paris perhaps more than anyone!
She has written two books on the subject: An Hour From Paris and Half an Hour From Paris, both of which you can find on her site here.
We also discuss the trail sign posts that you'll find while walking around France, here is her blog post on the topic.
Wanna join my book club? Go find more information on Patreon and perhaps see you for the live video with David Lebovitz on Tuesday afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Oliver G here, the host of the Earful Tower podcast presented by French Today. |
| 0:06.4 | More about them and their audiobooks to teach you French at the end of the episode. |
| 0:11.1 | But how are you? |
| 0:12.3 | How is everything with you guys? |
| 0:14.0 | I hope it's all well. |
| 0:14.8 | Things are well with me here in Paris. |
| 0:16.8 | I've just spent the weekend doing, I wouldn't use the word renovation, |
| 0:21.8 | but I would say, |
| 0:27.4 | doing lots of new things in our new apartment, putting together tables and drilling. |
| 0:32.4 | You know, the reason I wouldn't use the word renovation is because I've just been reading the David Lieberwit's book called La Part for the book club, and he went through a hell of a renovation and in fact |
| 0:41.0 | the reason I bring that up is because tomorrow Tuesday, February 26th tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm going to visit David's apartment, the one that he wrote about in the book for the book club, |
| 0:53.0 | the Eiffel Tower Book club and we are going to talk |
| 0:55.9 | about his book we're going to look around we're going to film a live facebook video for the book club |
| 1:00.7 | so i bring that up because if you're not in the book club you should be in the book club it's all on |
| 1:06.2 | facebook for now every month for the past six months i I've been dissecting books about France with a whole |
| 1:12.8 | bunch of book club members and this is going to be the first time that the author is going to be |
| 1:17.5 | in the book club answering your questions. So go and sign up for that. It's on Facebook. There's |
| 1:23.2 | an optional sign up on Patreon of $5 a month. If you think it's worth it, sign up. If not, |
| 1:28.9 | enjoy the free ride. But that's going to be tomorrow at 4pm. Enjoy that. But speaking of books, |
| 1:34.7 | today's guest has also written a book. I've got Annabelle Sims, who's talking about day trips, |
| 1:40.1 | secret day trips from Paris. She's done two books. One is an hour from Paris and the other one |
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