Hello everyone, it's a Monday in Paris. You're listening to the Aval Tile podcast, but come on, you knew that already. You're probably not new around here. But if you are new around here, let me just say a few words to welcome you. This is a podcast where I bring you directly the listener to Paris, even if just for half an hour. And what I usually do is I usually get an interesting guest or someone who's done

something pretty cool in Paris. I get them to share their take on this city or indeed like today's

episode I take someone in this case my wife who's known around these parts as lovely Lena and

well we walked from one end of the best street in Paris to the other in the goal of making you feel like, I don't know, either that you can learn something or that you can get some

tips for your next traveling sojourn to Paris or who knows. But for this episode, I'm going to be

on Ruud des Abbas, but before we get into that, I want to talk a little bit about the sponsor

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in french so more on that at the end of the episode as well as not just one but two emails that

listeners have sent in i like to call call it Gmail around here. Hint,

my last name's G, G, G, E, in case you want to write some email yourself. I'm going to read out

two of them and a really nice review. Why do I do so much? Because it's a bit of a shorter

episode today, so we've got the luxury of a bit of interaction. But first, before I start

the episode, I thought I just tell you what I got up to yesterday because, hey, maybe you feel like maybe you're there chopping onions or, I don't know, drawing cartoons or maybe you're on a tractor in Texas, and you're wondering, what's Paris like right now?

Well, let me tell you what I did yesterday.

So yesterday, Sunday in Paris, I'm sitting at one of my favorite coffee shops up in Pigal.

It's called KB.

KB. They're not sponsoring the show. I just like them. KB coffee shop. I'm sitting there and my wife says,

let's go for a walk. So what did we do? We got up, headed down the hill, went to the penton gallery,

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