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The Earful Tower: Paris

The 6th arrondissement: Classic Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The 6th arrondissement is this week's focus on the podcast. Here's what we found after spending a full day there.

Mentioned in this show

Breakfast at Cafe Flore

Musee Delacroix/Square Furstenburg

Buly perfumerie

La Palette Cafe

Luxembourg Gardens 

Treize au Jardin cafe

Ladurée confectionary store

The church: L'abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The bouquiniste bookshops by the Seine

Le Select bar

Brasserie Lipp 

Prescription cocktail bar

Lapérouse (for dessert)

Including an interview with renowned author John Baxter.

The Earful Tower podcast episode

This podcast episode features music by Pres Maxson, including his take on "Jardin du Luxembourg" by LAURA.

Video guide to the 6th arrondissement

We’ll share our visit, in video format, on our YouTube channel in the coming days. We’ll be making one of these travel vlogs every week, so be sure to subscribe (you can do it in one click via this link). 

The Earful Tower’s guide to the 6th arrondissement

Read our full guide with all the pictures on the Earful Tower website here.

A big thanks to the Patreon members who make all this possible. Join them here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast, The Paris Countdown, where we go from

0:05.5

the 20th Ayrondesmont, down to the first. Who's we? It's me, Oliver G. And me, Lina Norton

0:12.2

G. Now, you don't have to do this, Lena, but everybody else, close your eyes. I'm doing it

0:18.1

too. Okay, Lena's doing it too. Also, if you are driving, if you are running, if you're operating heavy machinery,

0:26.6

don't close your eyes.

0:27.9

Everybody else.

0:28.9

Lena, you again.

0:29.5

I'm peaking.

0:31.0

Now, imagine Paris, the Paris that you think about when you're sort of trying to escape

0:35.8

to a happier place.

0:38.2

You got that in your head?

0:40.1

Sure.

0:40.7

Yeah?

0:41.1

You've just imagined the sixth Aaron Desmond.

0:44.0

Uh-huh.

0:44.6

The sixth Aaron Desmond, which is the subject of today's episode, it's the kind of Paris,

0:49.1

the famous, old, left bank, beautiful streets, art galleries, cafe terraces, cute little museums and of course

0:59.4

the Luxembourg Gardens.

1:01.1

That is what you were surely just imagining.

1:03.6

Surely, right?

1:05.0

Bordered by the St. River.

1:06.7

Beautiful.

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