Hi guys, imagine what it's like to have been an expat in Paris for over 50 years.

That is exactly what today's interview guest has done.

He's been here since 1965, as you're about to hear.

And he shares his thoughts on what it's like to be a foreigner.

He's British, a foreigner in Paris for so long, the differences between the people, the language,

even talk about the cool places in Paris, what kind of things we usually do. But before we get into that interview,

I just thought I'd give you a bit of a backstory about how it came to be. I was actually

walking through the mare with my girlfriend way back in the summer and we were lost and we were

looking for a cafe and while we're talking

about we must look like tourists almost we were looking left and right checking our phones and

this this older chap came up and it turns out he couldn't help us with the directions but we got

talking and I told him that I'd been sort of keeping an eye out to meet the longest serving

expat in Paris. And I figured over 50 years of experience he would do well and he agreed

to come on the show. So we met and he invited me to his house. I didn't drag him up the stairs

with this studio which I thought was fair enough for anyone over 70. Apologies to John Baxter

for bringing you up here, by the way.

But we got talking in his house, and this is what you're about to hear, the conversation from his

couch, a lovely house also down in that kind of Marais area with an amazing door knocker on the front

that actually prompted my recent blog post of all the best door knockers in Paris.

Anyway, this is a bit of a

slower interview, enjoy it. Not the kind of fast-paced stuff that we usually do, although

there is a quickfire round at the end, and don't forget to hang around for Corey's story,

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