4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Today's chat is an on-the-go episode co-hosted by my wife Lina. We visit all kinds of amazing spots, including the Champs-Elysées, the Petit Palais, Ladurée and more. Find the full details and my full guide to Paris by becoming a Patreon member.
After the chat, it's tour guide Marie from My Private Paris talking about the fascinating burial spot of Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette, which was also in the 8th.
My Private Paris is the boutique tour agency sponsoring this podcast season. Find out more about My Private Paris here (and tell them I sent you!)
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. I'm delighted to bring you a very |
0:06.4 | different episode today. It's one of the on the go episodes. But before we get into that, |
0:11.5 | a little bit of background. This season, I'm going through all the hour and this month's |
0:15.1 | one through 20. Today we're at number eight. And I'm trying a few different things this season. |
0:20.2 | And this episode is a good |
0:21.4 | example of it instead of getting a special guest who knows best I took my wife lina aka lovely |
0:27.0 | Lena and we went exploring the eighth hour on this month for the entire day with the microphone |
0:33.2 | and just pointing out things that we found so So get ready to join us on this journey. |
0:37.7 | But before we get started, I want to remind everyone this show is brought to you by the people at my private Paris. |
0:46.0 | Marie, who called herself recently the heart of the company, one of the tour guides. |
0:51.0 | She explained the eighth hour on dismantled for us during, well, she's on at the very end |
0:57.3 | of the episode, we're on the Chonseil. And this is a little clip from that where she's explaining |
1:01.5 | the 8th Arandest month. So here's what she says. So the 8th is known to be really grand. You have |
1:06.8 | the Chanselais, largest avenue of Paris, you have the art, you have all the businesses |
1:12.1 | and all the great boutiques such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes. So here you can feel like |
1:18.3 | you're really upclass, you know. There is this classy feeling, but at the same time, it's kind of |
1:24.1 | not what we prefer as Parisian because there is not this little charm of little |
1:28.7 | bakeries there or little shops but it is something impressive for sure you need to pass the eight |
1:33.6 | at one point so there you have it kind of elegant expensive that's the kind of theme that'll run |
1:38.6 | through this episode as we travel around the whole district exploring but strap in tight here we go we go, 8th Ardismont from the back of the scooter, visiting some |
1:47.9 | of the main sites. |
1:49.0 | I'm not going to read any emails at the end or anything like that, because this is a bit of |
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