Walking in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hello everyone,
What is it about Paris that makes it so synonymous with a good walk?
A historian might suggest that the city was built for walking – ever since the Pont Neuf rolled out some of Europe’s first pedestrian sidewalks 400 years ago.
A resident might say that walking is more practical than the Metro in what is a (relatively) small world city.
A flaneur (or flaneuse) – someone who likes to wander aimlessly – probably wouldn't even answer because they're off lost in their thoughts somewhere on the Left Bank.
But who better to ask than Jessie Kanelos Weiner, a Chicago native who has lived in Paris for the past decade?
She is the co-author and illustrator of "Paris in Stride" and we also talked about what makes Paris so perfect for walking, her favourite place for a stroll in the city…. and she gave us the exclusive on the subject of her upcoming book!
While we’re on the subject of walking, you might be aware that I’m a big fan of walking too. Every week (and sometimes several times a week) I go on a walk around Paris with one of my podcast guests.
And I stream the whole thing live for my Patreon supporters. In fact, you may have seen the walk I did around the Marché d’Aligre with Jessie last year. Heck, maybe you saw the live event I did with her at a bookshop on the Left Bank too!
Enjoy your stroll, wherever you may be having it, and even more so if you’ve got The Earful Tower plugged into your ears
Oliver
Important links:
Get Jessie’s book, Paris in Stride, here. Visit her blog here and her website here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's a Monday in Paris. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast produced by French today, audiobooks, and my name's Oliver G. |
| 0:08.2 | And if you're anything like me when the weather's beautiful like it is today, you probably like going for a little bit of a walk around Paris. |
| 0:15.1 | Well, lucky you, that's exactly what I'm going to be talking about for the next half an hour with my guest, Jesse Canellos, |
| 0:25.9 | Winer. And she's written a book called Paris In Stride. You may well have heard of it. You may well have even read it. But you certainly haven't heard her talking on the Earful Tower podcast about it. |
| 0:30.8 | So I'm not going to mess around. You're going to hear me talking to her for the next 25 minutes and then five minutes at the end where I talk a little bit |
| 0:37.9 | about French today and some of the emails I've been getting in lately from you listeners. So let's get |
| 0:44.8 | straight into it. Me and Jesse, the Earful Tower, talking about walking in Paris. Well, let's do it. |
| 0:56.3 | Jesse, welcome to the studio. |
| 0:58.0 | Thank you so much for having me. How are you feeling today? |
| 0:59.2 | I feel pretty good. |
| 1:00.1 | How about you? |
| 1:00.7 | I'm feeling pretty good. |
| 1:01.8 | The sun's out. |
| 1:02.7 | Paris is shiny. |
| 1:03.8 | Everything feels better when the sun's out. |
| 1:05.3 | It's true. |
| 1:05.8 | I think we're on to better times. |
| 1:07.8 | So that sounds like an accent that you've got there, Jesse. |
| 1:10.5 | Where are you from? I don't have an accent that sounds like an accent that you've got there, Jesse. Where are you from? |
| 1:11.2 | I don't have an accent. |
| 1:12.2 | You have an accent. |
| 1:13.2 | Where are you from? |
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