This episode 169.

169. This episode is brought to you in part by Patreon supporters and addicted to France the tour company that

specializes in small group tours in France. the BOUlejoule, I'm Annie, and in today's show Elis and I discuss the advantages of taking a tour

versus doing a DIY visit to France.

Normally join us in France is all about helping you prepare your

do-it-yourself visit to France, but today let's have a short episode about why

DIY isn't for everybody. I am introducing a new segment to the show today. I'm calling it a bite of French

history and culture and you will understand why stay tuned for that at the end of the episode.

The extra content for email subscribers this week is

called Scam in Progress. While leading the October 2017 Paris tour, I ran into a swarm of scammers and that's what I call them a swarm because there's usually

20 of them or something. I had my camera in my hand I was going to do street photography

so I when I do that I put it on full automatic.

And since they were right there, I just pushed the shutter

and I, you know, and I got some good photos.

One of the scammers saw me and she got in my face about the photo,

so I told her, you know, what I'm doing is perfectly legal,

you're in public, do you have no expectation of privacy,

and why don't you call the police?

Of course she wasn't going to call the police.

They are scammers.

So they left me alone and it wasn't a big deal.

We you know we ended up having a good laugh about it but for the folks on the tour with me

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