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The Earful Tower: Paris

How to plan a trip to Paris: tips for seeing “The Big Five”

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For this season finale, we’re on a private boat on the Seine River with Marie and Bertrand from My Private Paris.

They explain how best to plan a visit to the big five, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Musee d’Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, and the Seine. 

My Private Paris is a local deluxe agency, crafting itineraries for tours in Paris and beyond. See what they offer here. They've been the sponsor for this podcast all season!

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Music: Pres Maxson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, Oliver G here from the Earful Tower and today we're talking about how to plan the ideal trip to Paris.

0:08.4

I'm here with two Paris planning experts. It's Bertrand and Marie from my private Paris and they're going to be breaking down the top five, the big five if you will, things to do in this city as we watch them go by from this private boat on the

0:22.5

Sen River are you ready let's do it

0:27.4

bertrand d'alman so uh...

0:33.1

i'm pretty good to be honest especially uh... because I know we're sitting on a boat.

0:38.3

A private boat? Private boat is kind of my happy place in Paris.

0:41.3

Is it?

0:42.3

I think so.

0:43.3

Question before we get into anything, seeing the city from the river, is it a whole different vibe from walking?

0:50.3

Yes. How so?

0:52.3

Very much so. First, we're not, we don't have cars around. We don't have people on

0:57.0

bicycles. It feels really private, especially on this type of boat. And we get to see it from a

1:04.8

different angle. We're a bit lower than on the regular streets. And it gives us a wider perspective on the monuments, especially the big ones.

1:15.6

The big five.

1:16.6

Have you been to Africa?

1:17.6

I have been to Africa.

1:18.6

So you know they've got the big five animals that you see?

1:21.6

Yes.

1:22.6

We're going to see the big five monuments, and I know already that your favorite monument in Paris, I think, is Notre Dame.

1:29.3

Yes. True, can we see that?

1:31.3

Tell me about it. First, if we talk about planning the ideal trip to the city, should Notre Dame be an immediate, put it to the top of your list kind of thing?

1:39.3

Honestly, whether it's your first time or your hundredth time to Paris, not seeing Notre Dame after what has happened would be a crime.

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