Hello everybody, you're listening to the Avaltar podcast. My name's Oliver G. This is a show all about Paris, all about France, where typically I interview a guest who gives us some kind of inside information to Paris, France, being French, all that kind of stuff. That's what I usually do, except I'm on holiday. So today you're going to hear me interview podcaster Oliver G, talking about a story that I wrote a little while ago that I think you guys

will still find useful,

maybe even entertaining,

maybe even informative.

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But today's episode was inspired because I was reading, I've got it in front of me, actually,

I was reading an article that was sort front of me actually, I was reading an article

that was sort of doing the rounds on the internet in the last couple of days and what I'm looking

at now is from the independent and it says why like a local is the most overrated concept in

travel and the gist of this article is pretty much the average local person doesn't go to the

most interesting bars. They have their own regular haunts. Like they do the laundry rather than going

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