The struggles of moving to Paris as an expat
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast guest is American Matt Kepnes from the hit travel website Nomadic Matt. And believe it or not, he’s recently moved to Paris.
I invited him into the studio to discuss some of the things he has struggled with in his first few months in the French capital.
We discuss the difficulties of joining gyms, making French friends, and much more.
Find out more about Matt and his work on his official site here.
And lastly, if you’re a Patreon supporter, be ready on Saturday afternoon for a walk through one of the most beautiful parts of Stockholm. Click here to get more information.
See you then, I hope.
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| 0:00.0 | It is the Earful Tower, another episode, another Monday. |
| 0:03.3 | Yes, just one a week. |
| 0:04.9 | I've been getting a few emails from you guys lately, |
| 0:07.4 | wondering why I do such short episodes and so few of them. |
| 0:11.2 | That might change soon. |
| 0:12.3 | Watch this space, but this show is brought to you by French Today. |
| 0:16.6 | So French Today, they're audiobooks, they'll teach you French. |
| 0:19.5 | I've been doing them all year, and if you want to further 10% off when you go and buy one, visit French Today, they're audiobooks, they'll teach you French. I've been doing them all year, |
| 0:21.3 | and if you want a further 10% off when you go and buy one, visit Frenchtoday.com forward slash |
| 0:26.5 | eFall 5. But I'll be talking about them a lot more at the very end of the episode. I'll also be |
| 0:32.0 | reading out a little bit of Gmail. That's GEE email. That's a little bit of a word play. Maybe my last name is G. But I'll be doing that. But first, we've got an episode. No, not first. First things first, if you're wondering why I sound a little bit different, it's because I'm not in Paris right now. I'm in Sweden on holiday and I'm recording this little intro bit on my telephone. |
| 1:11.7 | Sounds all right to you maybe. Not as good as a studio quality. Don't worry. I was with the guest in the studio. That's what you'll be hearing. And the guest was Matt from Nomadic Matt. Yes, the king of travel, as I called him on Instagram yesterday. He's the guy that created the website, nomadic mat.com. Go and check it out. He does budget travel. He's a New York Times bestselling author, |
| 1:17.4 | and he's just moved to Paris. And we got talking. I said, why don't you come in the studio |
| 1:21.7 | and we'll talk about the struggles that you may have gone through moving to Paris? Because, |
| 1:25.9 | as you may have guessed, it's not all easy. |
| 1:28.4 | It's not all smooth sailing moving to Paris. |
| 1:30.7 | And that's what Matt has experienced as well. |
| 1:32.6 | So I'll switch over, let you hear from him. |
| 1:35.6 | But in brief other news, speaking of Sweden, |
| 1:38.2 | if you're a Patreon supporter of this show, |
| 1:40.5 | and if you're not, I don't know what you're waiting for. |
| 1:42.4 | Now's the time on Saturday. So in six |
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