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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

France Via A Little Red Scooter w/ Oliver Gee

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Oliver Gee, a former Australian journalist, can teach you fake french in 1:07 seconds, give you the most amazing insights into local life in Paris, and he just completed an 8-week, 2500 mile trip around France on a little red scooter, going 30 miles per hour (max) with his new wife on the back and somehow found the time to join us on today's episode. He is the man behind TheEarfulTower.com, The Earful Tower Podcast, and he makes tons of videos all highlighting the beauty and mysteries of Paris while constantly striving to discover more about his adopted hometown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So riding around on a scooter is hard, but it's like three times as hard when you have

0:04.6

flying disease basically is what we're gonna.

0:07.0

At least.

0:10.0

This is the final goal, you Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast.

0:15.4

Episode 3.45.

0:19.4

Paris may be home to the Mona Lisa, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower,

0:23.7

Amazing Cheese and Baggett, Sacre Kerr,

0:26.9

and 2.2 million people.

0:29.6

But Paris is the world's largest city that does not have one of these.

0:37.0

Stick around until the end of the show and I'll give you your answer.

0:41.0

Here's a hint.

0:42.0

It's one of the reasons Parisians are such crazy drivers.

0:45.0

I have taken my Tortuga backpack all around the world with me but there is one place that I've

0:55.4

taken it that was by far the fanciest place my tortuga has ever been and that is when we rolled up to the Park Hyatt

1:04.9

Vendome in Paris. Now this is a hotel that costs a thousand dollars a night.

1:10.4

Of course we were using points. We weren't paying a thousand dollars a night. What do you think I am crazy?

1:14.8

Rolled up to the Park Hyatt Vendome and there I was with my Tortuga backpack. So if you're someone who's sitting there thinking, all right, well, this backpack is only for people who are backpacking, you know, your traditional backpack, maybe grittier travel, nope, nope, nope, if you want the best travel care on backpack, one that you can feel comfortable rolling up to a thousand dollar night hotel with.

1:39.0

You can check it out, Tortuga backpacks.com.

1:42.8

Don't forget to use that promo code EPOP.

1:44.8

That will get you 10% off your entire order.

1:49.9

And despite the fact that I spent two nights in a thousand dollar a night hotel, I think anyone who knows me or

1:56.2

as listen to this podcast would agree that I am decidedly not high class.

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