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Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Paris: It’s Always a Good Idea

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0559 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We’re on summer holiday! In honor of the Olympics taking place in Paris right now, please enjoy this replay of our Paris episode. Paris: It’s Always a Good Idea - 24 August 2020 When you daydream about Paris, whatever sparkling, romantic images you conjure are probably not too far off the mark. It is, after all, know as the City of Lights and the City of Love. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from almost everywhere and is a constant reminder that you are IN PARIS. The streets are lined with cafés, the tables and chairs arranged so you can sit next to your companions and look out on the people passing by. The smell of baguettes wafts in the streets in the early morning. And when the sun gets lower in the sky, burnishing the buildings with its glow, people fill the cafés, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes, and talking, while their hands gesture in the air to make a point. It is, in many ways, just like the movies. In this episode, we talk about some of our favorite experiences visiting Paris and how it really does live up to its dreamy reputation. Then we discuss the books that transported us there: an insightful memoir about one lively (and typically Parisian) street, an illustrated novel about the magic of everyday life, a fictional biography of Madame Tussaud, a modern crime novel with a snappy heroine, and a confection of a story that centers around an exceptional bottle of wine. For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit show notes. Sign up for our free Substack to connect with us and other friendly readers who are curious about the world. Transcript of Paris: It’s Always a Good Idea Do you enjoy our show? Do you want be friends with other (lovely) people who love books and travel? Please support our work on Patreon! Strong Sense of Place is an audience-funded endeavor, and we need your support to continue making this show. Get all the info you need right here. Thank you! As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Facebook Twitter Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Mel and I are on summer holiday. Because the Olympics are taking place in Paris right now,

0:05.6

we are sharing our season two episode about Paris. We talk about the best baguette we ever ate,

0:11.8

the theft of the Mona Lisa, the creepy catacombs, and a whole bunch of books we love set in Paris.

0:18.0

Enjoy the show. Hello, welcome to Strong Sense of Place. In each episode,

0:23.7

we focus on one destination and discuss what makes it different from any other place on Earth.

0:29.3

Then we recommend five books we love that took us there on the page. I'm Melissa Jolwan. I'm

0:34.1

David Humphreys. We're going around the world, one great read at a time.

0:38.1

Thanks for joining us. Hello, welcome to episode 13 of Strong Sense of Place.

1:02.3

Lucky 13.

1:03.1

It's season two.

1:04.5

We made it to season two.

1:06.0

Great job, everybody.

1:07.2

Raise us all around.

1:09.6

Today, we get curious about Paris.

1:12.6

I have a giant, squishy soft spot in my heart for Paris.

1:17.6

Same.

1:18.6

And I know that there are people who don't enjoy Paris because it's quite large and it can be overwhelming.

1:24.6

Yeah.

1:25.6

But I feel like today we're going to make a strong case for why Paris is pretty much always a good idea.

1:31.5

I also have a friend who he travels a lot for business.

1:35.8

And we have a chat channel that we share.

1:39.3

And at one point he said, does anybody have any ideas about what I can do in Paris?

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