Renovating a chateau in the French countryside
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone!
It's the end of the year so it's time to escape Paris and head to a chateau in the French countryside.
Meet Julie Huh, a well-known Korean author and Instagrammer who lives in the Mayenne department of France.
She talks about being the only Asian in her village, how she renovated a chateau, and how countryside renovations in France can be a headache indeed.
Find her website here and her Instagram here.
Buy a copy of my new book here, support this show on Patreon here, and follow the show on Instagram here.
Get the further ten percent off French Today audiobooks here.
Talk soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Dear full tower listeners, we are breaking protocol here. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm doing an emergency double introduction, and there's a couple of reasons for it. |
| 0:07.0 | First, there's been a generous donation to the Kickstarter for my new memoir by the Peloton Cafe. |
| 0:14.8 | L'UPeloton Cafe, one of my favorite places in Paris. |
| 0:17.9 | They feature heavily in the book, and they were very important to me during my Paris journey. So this episode is dedicated to them. Thank you very much. If you guys |
| 0:27.2 | come to Paris, you listeners, go and find the Peloton Cafe in the fourth hour on Desmond, |
| 0:32.6 | one of my favorite places to go for a coffee. Say hi from me, Why not? So thank you Paul and Christian from that lovely |
| 0:39.6 | cafe. Now, if you also want to get an episode dedicated to you or if you want to get a copy |
| 0:44.2 | on my new memoir, go to theeerfultower.com slash book. Now, there's two other reasons I'm doing |
| 0:50.5 | this emergency intro besides the usual intro. One is that I wanted to say thank you to |
| 0:56.9 | everyone because we're over 150% on that Kickstarter goal, which means I'm very close to guaranteeing a big |
| 1:03.9 | book tour in the US. I'm talking like a 20 date US book tour all over the country. There's loads of |
| 1:10.3 | details on social media. Thanks for all |
| 1:13.2 | these generous offers. It looks like I might be doing a rooftop bar show in Chicago and a wine shop |
| 1:20.6 | show in Seattle. It's all getting out of control. I'm really enjoying this. Let's see if it can happen. |
| 1:26.1 | Help me make it a reality. Buy a copy of the book. |
| 1:28.7 | Please. Also, might do Australia. A lot of people in Australia who's saying, what are you forgetting |
| 1:33.6 | about us for? I won't forget about you guys. Go on support the Kickstarter. Earfultower.com |
| 1:37.8 | slash book. The third thing, Julie in this episode, who I'm going to introduce it properly in a second, but she talks a lot about dormers. |
| 1:45.0 | I didn't know what a dormer was, I looked it up and just to let you guys know it's a, maybe you knew already, but it's a form of a roof window. |
| 1:51.0 | It's essentially a window with a roof on top, extra space, a little bit of extra space in there. You knew that already. Oh yeah, one more thing. I'm recording this on Sunday, the day before I'm |
| 2:02.1 | going to release it. It's exactly two years ago that I started Patreon. Without you, Patreon supporters, |
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