Hello there. You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. An Australian

in Paris. What am I doing here? Who knows? But I'll tell you this. Today's episode is a

slightly different one because I don't have a guest. It's just me sitting here talking to you.

So if you join today hoping to hear an interesting guest, you're stuck with me, but I've got an interesting topic for you.

The topic is when the Sen River floods.

And I've divided this into three sections.

One is the present, one is the past, and one is the historic past.

This is something that interests me to no end, really. I love this.

I find it particularly fascinating and it's relevant right now because the water level right now

is kind of trickling over the embankments and threatening to give Paris a good washdown.

Don't be alarmed though when I say that.

Paris isn't about to flood like it did 110 years ago. That's right. We'll be talking about

the 1910 floods later on. But this episode will include some fun things to find around the city

if you're interested in little trivia, flood-related trivia, some facts and a lot of excited

babble from me, your host Oliver G,

and just a word of warning in the chaos and the fun that comes with this episode,

there's a chance that I might use the word embankment wrong.

So, just that we're all on the same page here and so that you can imagine it, the water

in the sand comes up against a small wall.

I've referred to that as the embankment and I think it technically is, but if you're imagining

Paris, there are very large embankments like a further one along which is like six meters

high. It's enormous. That's kind of a wall. If I say

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