Yearful Tower listeners, let me paint you a picture. Imagine this. I was standing out the front of La Peloton Cafe,

having a coffee. Obviously, we can't go inside the coffee shops. We have to stand outside with it,

and we're sort of encouraged not to linger, but I was lingering a little bit. And Paul, the guy that

runs the place, was in conversation with a man with an

unusual accent. And he said, Diedrich, you've got to meet Oliver. Oliver, meet Diedrich. And we got

chatting. And that is exactly how I met today's guest. Diedrich runs Flora Magnifica, which is a

florist shop with a difference down on Rue de Turen.

It's at number 19 in the fourth hour on thismont.

Now, when I say that it is a flower shop with a difference, I'm telling the truth, this place

doesn't have a single living flower in there, not even a dead flower.

In fact, the whole shop is full of artificial

flowers. And they're so beautiful and so convincing that people go in there every single day,

Diedrich says, and are fooled, basically. But the whole point, of course, isn't to fool people.

In fact, I'll let Diedrich explain to you what the point of

artificial flowers are, but I can tell you this from my perspective, they are stunning. And he's

got a cool story and a cool background. He's Dutch. You'll figure out more about that in a second.

But we have a wide range of conversation about Paris, bicycles, flowers, flowery villages around France, and a whole lot more.

Now, before we get into the episode, I want to say this show is not sponsored.

This isn't one of those podcasts with annoying ads.

Don't worry about it, but I will say this.

Patreon is the website where you can become a member of this site,

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