What does Paris look like in lockdown?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Paris has been closed down for over a month now. Me, I'm confined to a radius of 1km in peaceful Montmartre... but was wondering what the rest of the city looks like.
This episode features chats with five friends of the show, sharing their lockdown observations from their respective corners of Paris.
Here are the links to the guests and what they mentioned, in order of appearance.
(From 3.55) Veronique from French Girl in Seattle (who's on Patreon too), talking about Vincennes and the "petite couronne" in the suburbs)
(From 17.58) Jay Swanson from YouTube (who's also on Patreon), talking about Trocadero and the Arc de Triomphe.
(From 24.10) Adrian Leeds from House Hunters International (visit her site here), talking about the Marais.
(From 35.05) Author John Baxter (find his site here), talking about the Left Bank and the Jardin du Luxembourg.
(From 43.50) Boris Petrovic from Paris in Person (find his app Notre Dame Fiat Lux anywhere you find apps - link to Apple here), talking about the 7th, the Eiffel Tower, and the Seine.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, you're listening to the Airful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. I've been in confinement |
| 0:06.7 | in my Montmart department for over four weeks, and I'm doing everything I can to stop myself from |
| 0:13.0 | going crazy. The latest has been a new game that I call How High Can I Drop My Wedding Ring and |
| 0:19.9 | still land it on my finger. |
| 0:22.4 | Record is about 10 centimeters. |
| 0:24.5 | But I'm not bored. |
| 0:25.9 | No, I'm not bored. |
| 0:26.7 | Don't worry about me. |
| 0:27.8 | No, rather the opposite. |
| 0:29.2 | I've been working hard. |
| 0:30.3 | I've been making a lot of extra stuff, including calls to some friends of the show. |
| 0:36.0 | So what you're going to hear today is five different stories, |
| 0:40.0 | six if you include my own, from people who've been on this podcast many times before, |
| 0:45.6 | and who all live in interesting parts of Paris. And I figured I'd call them all up using Zoom |
| 0:50.2 | and have a little virtual chat about what some of the most famous landmarks in Paris are looking like, |
| 0:57.1 | how people are dealing with the lockdown. |
| 1:00.9 | And you're going to hear from names like author John Baxter, tour guide Boris from Paris in person, |
| 1:08.0 | Jay Swanson, the YouTube megastar, content creator and Instagram expert, Veronique |
| 1:14.6 | from French girl in Seattle takes France, and House Hunter's international star Adrian Leeds. |
| 1:21.7 | So you're going to hear from them in just a random order really telling their stories. |
| 1:26.8 | But just to start off with my story is I'm in |
| 1:29.8 | Montmartz. I've sort of mentioned it before, but it's typically pretty dead. We can go out for |
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