Stockholm: The Paris of the north?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Hello!
This week I was off gallivanting around Stockholm and I was very intrigued to see some serious links between France and Sweden.
Whether it's the French general who became a Swedish king, the Swedish count who was perhaps the lover of Marie Antoinette, or the ways the Vikings changed the scope of the French language forever.... that's what today's episode is about.
As promised in the episode, here's a link to read more about that Swedish king.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's another Monday, and I think we all know what that means by now. |
| 0:04.4 | That means another episode of the Earful Tower, which is brought to you by French Today. |
| 0:09.8 | Now, they're audiobooks that'll teach your French, you'll be able to speak like a native, |
| 0:14.9 | and you can get a 10% discount if you go French Today.com slash Earful 5, but more about them at |
| 0:20.4 | the end of the episode. |
| 0:21.9 | If you're new around here and you're wondering, what the heck is the earful tower? |
| 0:26.2 | Well, it's a podcast hosted by me. |
| 0:29.0 | My name's Oliver G. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm an Australian guy that lives in Paris. |
| 0:32.3 | And typically, I tackle France. |
| 0:34.9 | I try and find the people that are helping the city of light to shine, |
| 0:39.9 | whether that's a mayor or a chef or an author or a blogger or a YouTube, |
| 0:45.3 | just someone interesting to talk to about Paris and what's so good about it. |
| 0:50.4 | So if you're expecting that here on your first episode of the Yearful, |
| 0:54.1 | I'm sorry to let you down. |
| 0:55.0 | That's not what's going to happen this week because I've been on holiday in, well, I'm going to reveal it in a second. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been on a holiday in a country, in a town that I would say is the Paris of the North. |
| 1:09.0 | What? The Paris of the North? You're probably sitting there thinking. |
| 1:12.7 | What am I talking about? Well, I'll give it away. I'm talking about Stockholm, Sweden. And for a bit of |
| 1:18.9 | context, I used to live in Stockholm. I've married a Swedish woman and I know Sweden and Stockholm |
| 1:24.9 | very, very well, maybe even as well as I know Paris and France. |
| 1:30.1 | And coming back here, as I sometimes do, the more often I've been coming back, |
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