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The Earful Tower: Paris

How to spend a week in Provence

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8796 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you had seven days to spend in Provence but didn't know what to see.

Never fear, we've done the research for you. We just scooted through the region and can recommend the following. 

The Roman arena in Arles. 

The Camargues national Park

The cathedral overlooking Marseille

Getting lost in the old town of Aix en Provence

Chanelling your inner travel writer in Ménerbes (where A Year in Provence was set)

Taking in the Sunday market in L'Isle sur la Sorgue

Dancing on the Pont d'Avignon

That's it! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here, full tower listeners, it's Oliver G here in Provence, and that's going to be the theme of this episode.

0:05.2

In fact, Leina and I are going to recommend seven things for you to do in this beautiful region of southern France.

0:11.1

In other words, how to spend a week in Provence.

0:14.7

But first, here's some music from Slim and the Beast Let's Slim in the Beast.

0:29.4

Let's do it together

0:33.4

Let's go for a ride Let's go for a ride.

0:39.4

Let's go for a ride.

0:45.2

And welcome to episode 12 of the honeymoon season.

0:47.8

I'm sitting with my wife, Lena.

0:49.2

Hello, husband Oliver.

0:50.3

How you doing?

0:51.0

I'm great, thank you.

0:52.1

I said the other day, I said it's talking to some Kiwi tourists in Menarb, which we're going

0:57.8

to talk about soon.

0:58.8

And I said, they asked about what we're doing.

1:00.8

I said, I'm just over there with my wife.

1:02.7

Maybe the first time I said it out loud.

1:04.3

Yeah, it has a good ring to it.

1:05.8

Do you know that the regular listeners to this show, I think, have emailed me to say that in one of the videos

1:11.3

I referred to as my fiancé. Oh, shock horror. I didn't even notice. I said he was in Bordeaux. I'm

1:17.1

travel around with my fiance. So you listeners that emailed about that, you're eagle-eared. Well done.

1:23.2

Yeah. Well played. I didn't even notice. No, me neither. No. Anyway, what we're going to do this week is talking about Provence. And Provence, just a word. Just the word, province. Yeah, it's got a touch of magic and a sniffle lavender like Paris, that elicits a sort of, you know, it makes you think about certain things.

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