✍️ Bistro In Paris Invites Guests To Send Letters To Their Future Selves

Imagine receiving a letter from your past self, one written a year before in a Parisian bistro.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I follow lots of people on Instagram who go to
beautiful cafes or beautiful bars around the world, and I
just pervet at the furnishings, the architecture, the sensibility of it.
And I saw one here and I thought, you know
who'd love to go here? Is my friend Brendan Jones.
Can I read out to you what they do in
this French cafe?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
One of those dingy bell cafes that you like. You
walk in, there's a little bell at the door. I
hate those places, I know.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You just I have nothing to eat, some sort of
tart or some sort of seeds, and that's it.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You're very hard to go to cafes to get you
a coffee, and you're so rude to those people. And
often their wives have painted the pictures.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
On the walls and it looks like a veg.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're so rude about them.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, I couldn't tell us it a flower and a vege.
I don't know what is this?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Your bus and you're walking ding ding and you can't
leave because the ding ding bell has alerted the owner
who's out the back looking at all the bills because
they can't afford to run the plates because no one
goes in the coming.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, can I help you? Yes, I have the hons
of pie.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Remember Remember when I'd had a hip replacement and one
of my you came to visit me about four days
after I'd only just come home from hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Doctor said me, talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
The doctor said, the doctor, send to me, get her
up and movie.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I told you that I should be walking. The doctor
didn't say anything. Doctor what was his name? Then?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, come on, anyway, you made me walk all the
way into our local shops. It was so so painful.
And then I wanted to go into cafes. Oh not
that dingy bell cafe. Oh come on, could you just
leave me alone anyway? Let me tell you about this
Parisian cafe that you would love. This is from Kitty.

(02:09):
For my last lunch in Paris, I went to a bistro.
We're at the end of the meal. They bring you
a card and a fountain pen to write yourself a letter,
which they will send to you in a year's time.
Imagine what you would say if after you've had your
le Hunza pie and you've complained about the vadgie picture
on the wall and the dinghy bell and they say,

(02:30):
here's a fountain pel pen. Write yourself a note.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
What would that say? Remind me not to come back?
I know I've reminded myself. Look, you're either.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Going to Sizzler or nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
The sizzler. You know, you just get. You get, You
get what you know. That's what you like. You get
what you know.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know you've got a lot of time on your
hands and you can sit around looking at the wall.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Why what are you.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Doing with your time? Tell me one thing? Stand up
paddle boarding. You're de evolving that shape you do. It's
like like you're moving backwards as the.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, we're actually standing upright.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Just just you know, this is not a forum to
bash my one pleasure that I get in life.