The Earful Tower: Paris

This week we scale the Eiffel Tower with its managing director Patrick Branco-Ruivo. 

What are his tips for visiting? His favourite view? And what would he ask if he had Gustave Eiffel himself on the telephone?

Join us on this exciting opportunity to explore one of the world's most iconic landmarks with the maestro behind it all. And hang around - we'll get some exclusive access to the underground section at the end. 

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I'm not proud to say it, but we got scammed pretty hard. Here's the full story. 

Mentioned at the end of the episode: Our walking tours of Paris: http://www.theearfultower.com/tours

Music by Pres Maxson.

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This week on the podcast, it's The Earful's two interns Thomas Farnham and Genevieve Victoria Gorain. And it's time to hear how they went with their bucket lists after their two-month internship is over. 

Here's the post with all ten ideas they mentioned in the episode. 

Also mentioned in this episode:

• The Earful Everywhere podcast (currently in Italy): https://theearfultow...

Meet Corinne Menegaux, the managing director of the Paris tourism board (Paris je t’aime).

We discuss Paris, the legacy of the Olympic Games, and what's coming next. We also talk about her Paris, her job, and how she'd spend her last day in this city. 

Find more about Paris je t'aime here: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/

Also mentioned in this episode:

• The Earful Everywhere podcast (currently in Italy)...

This week it's Caroline de Maigret, supermodel and author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are.

Her appearance on this podcast in April 2019 changed the direction and dynamic of the show. While we're between seasons, I take a look back at this episode and explain why it made a d...

Author Cara Black is back on the podcast!

She is a friend of the show, and has been appearing on it since 2019! 

We chat about writing mysteries set in Paris (she has penned over 20 of them), we talk about her upcoming book (which you can pre-order below), and we talk about Paris, of course. 

Helpful links for Cara:

• Cara Black's official site: https://carablack.com/
• Cara Black's Susbtack: https://carablack.substack.com/
• Preord...

This week on the podcast, it's The Earful's two new interns Thomas Farnham and Genevieve Victoria Gorain. They share their bucket lists for Paris for their two-month stay in Paris. 

I found it quite interesting to hear the perspectives of American university students on the City of Light, not least because my typical guests are a bit older. 

We'll check back in on them in a couple months to se...

This week on the podcast, I invite my three-year-old son Otis to talk about language. He has been doing a stellar job learning English, French, and Swedish at the same time, and I was curious to pick his brain about it.

You'll hear him tell me how I'm no good at rolling my Rs in French, why he speaks Swedish with his mother, and what he thought about Italy. Well... I mean... he's three years old, so he doe...

Let's go deep on the Notre Dame cathedral.

Our guest: Boris Petrovic, who has just published a series of historical essays on Notre Dame. 

His books are a series of seven, which you can buy one by one or in a heavyweight tome, all the information is here. 

You can also book Boris for a walking tour of Notre Dame here.  

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For this season finale, we’re on a private boat on the Seine River with Marie and Bertrand from My Private Paris.

They explain how best to plan a visit to the big five, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Musee d’Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, and the Seine. 

My Private Paris is a local deluxe ...

We're nearing the end of this podcast season, so here is a look behind the curtain at five exciting things that have happened... and that are about to happen. 

This whole season of The Earful Tower is brought to you by My Private Paris, which is an award-winning travel company creating deluxe itineraries for Paris and beyond. See what they offer here and be sure to let them know that you came from The Earful Tower.

Enjoying what we...

This week we talk about fun workshops in Paris that we've done recently, specifically stone carving and hat making. The guest: Lina Nordin Gee. 

The details: Stonemasonry classes are with last week's guest Grégory Philippe in his atelier in the Marais. If you want to find h...

This week we chat to stonemason Grégory Philippe in his atelier in the Marais. He reveals the world of limestone, the most important stone in the city.

If you want to find his studio and book one of his stone-carving sessions, you can find it in the heart of the Marais or online here (Address: 12 Rue du Prévôt, 75004).

At the end of the episode, Marie Segura from My Private Paris is in the studio discussing how best to visit her fa...

Let's take a closer look at the Père Lachaise cemetery of Paris, the most visited necropolis on earth. 

All kinds of famous and interesting people are buried here including Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde… and about a million more. Some 3.5 million people check it out annually.

In this episode you'll hear from author Joe Start, who wrote a book on Père Lachaise called The Chairfather - a literal translation of t...

After ten years in Paris, my wife Lina and I couldn't be happier. We have two little Parisian children, we have a small business, and we pinch ourselves to call Paris home. 

BUT...  we are also square pegs in rounds holes. Being a Swede and an Australian with a podcast company, while speaking questionable French, raises eyebrows. 

Here are a handful of things that have become frustrating fo...

Today we take a list of ten very popular things to do in Paris. And then Marie Segura, the co-founder of the My Private Paris tour agency, breaks them down into underrated or overrated. (And you can read it all here)

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