We just bought a house in Provence
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We bought a house in the charming Provence town of l'Isle sur la Sorgue!
That's right: the Pearl of Provence, the Venice of the South, the same place we recorded the Christmas episode last year. And while we'll still live in Paris and do business as usual, this exciting news will surely add a new scent of lavender to everything we do.
So: Why did we buy this house? How? What next? Are we leaving Paris? (no). We answer all these questions and more in this week's episode.
I'll share pics and videos along the way, be sure you're following our social media channels.
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| 0:00.0 | Big news. |
| 0:01.8 | Yes, huge. |
| 0:02.7 | Enormous. |
| 0:03.7 | Guess what? |
| 0:05.0 | We bought a house. |
| 0:06.5 | In Provence. |
| 0:08.0 | Not just Provence, but the pearl of Provence. |
| 0:11.0 | It's so exciting. |
| 0:13.0 | We are not leaving Paris. |
| 0:14.9 | No, no, we're staying. |
| 0:16.4 | But we want to tell you the story of something that's been taking up an awful lot of behind the scenes. |
| 0:25.4 | And a ridiculous amount. |
| 0:27.6 | Non-stop amount, basically. |
| 0:29.5 | And we've finally not just jumped that final hurdle, but we've made it our own. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | So here comes the story of how we bought a house in Provence, what it means, what we're doing, |
| 0:40.2 | what next, and why? |
| 0:42.5 | This is the yearful tower, I'm Oliver G, sitting with me as my wife, Lena Norton G, |
| 0:46.6 | and here comes some music. |
| 1:10.6 | Music. So it's kind of weird to talk about this. |
| 1:14.8 | I know it feels so, well, first of all, because it's kind of weird to um to talk about this i know it feels so um well first of all because it's it's been such a long process it's been an ongoing process for the past year more even more i think more |
| 1:22.6 | yeah so we we were really torn about sharing this story, the whole process of the way. |
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