Hello everyone. You are listening to the Earful Tower, a podcast that pretty much is usually

about Paris, but it's also about France. And I feel like I've been letting down the France

bit when it comes to this podcast lately. So this is what we're in for today. It's an episode

about the magnificent country of France outside of Paris.

Now, before we get into anything, there's something I have neglected to mention for two episodes now.

We're in a new season.

This is season nine of the Yearful Tower.

The reason I'm kind of laughing is because deep down, the seasons don't mean anything really at all. If you've been listening for a long while, you know that sometimes

there's a little bit of a theme or in the early day sometimes there was a sponsor for a season.

Now it's just sponsored essentially by the Patreon supporters. But, you know, season seven,

I started to go through all the hour on this month and then the COVID outbreak hit, which meant that

season 8 was a lot of sort of COVID talk, a lot of, you know, Paris was closed, still kind of

is. But I figured, look, New Year, New Start, positivity, and I did the first two episodes,

which maybe you've heard, which were kind of like bucket lists for Paris.

And now those episodes were so extremely popular. I'm not bragging here. They were just really

popular. And on social media, they got so much response, so many people sending in their lists

that I thought, what if I do one for France? What if I do a bucket list for France?

Recommending things to do and talk about my own dreams of things to do.

So that's what this episode is today.

Now before we get started, this is different to the Paris one because I think a lot of people

around the world don't have the same kind of knowledge of France as they do about Paris.

Secondly, it's a bit different because traveling around France, it's not the same thing.

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