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The Earful Tower: Paris

Five mistakes to avoid when visiting Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Here are the main mistakes to avoid if you're visiting Paris, according to this week's guest, writer and social media star Anna Kloots.

Anna has lived in Paris for five years - and I've been here for 10 - so this list is based on 15 years of Paris experience. 

Watch the YouTube version of this chat, filmed on the streets of Paris, right here.

For more from Anna, find her on Instagram here and Substack here.

This season of The Earful Tower is brought to you by the award-winning travel company My Private Paris, which specializes in tours in Paris, day trips outside Paris, and travel itineraries. See what they offer here

Get more from The Earful Tower by becoming a Patreon member, or a Substack member, or exploring the official site here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, this is the Earful Tower. My name is Oliver G.

0:04.0

It's brought to you by the tour company My Private Paris and today I'm with Anna Kluz.

0:09.0

Walking around on the 10th Ayrne Desmond, how you doing?

0:11.0

Good, how are you?

0:12.0

Very well. If you're listening to this at home, this is going to be like a normal podcast,

0:16.0

but if you're watching on YouTube, you're going to see us walking through the 10th hour on this month towards the Canal Samata drinking a very beautifully made coffee from Buddy Buddy.

0:27.3

So far so good?

0:28.3

One of my favorite coffee spots in Paris.

0:30.6

There you go.

0:31.6

And the idea is we're going to be talking about the mistakes that people make when they're coming

0:36.8

to Paris based on our combined Paris

0:40.5

years of 15. 15 years of Paris knowledge. Are you ready to get into it? I'm very ready. Let's do it.

0:46.9

Let's do it. So before anything, Anna, let's just rewind a little bit. You've been in Paris for five years.

0:52.1

Almost, yes. In January. January is five years.

0:55.2

So, it's crazy. Well, crazier still for me is that I'm, we did the first podcast recording in

1:01.4

November 2020. Yes. And things have changed an awful lot for you since then. Are you impressed that

1:06.3

I'm still here? I'm impressed that you've thrived. You've thrived. Like, it's really cool to follow your journey.

1:11.7

I went back and looked at what we talked about last time. And firstly, your work, it's grown a lot.

1:19.2

In 2020, you had 100,000 people following. At least that's what we said at the time.

1:23.2

That's what we said at the time. Now it's at least 500,000 I saw. Let's go this way.

1:28.3

So a lot more people are listening to you talk about things in Paris, which I think makes

1:34.3

you a good co-host on an episode about mistakes to make in this city.

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