October 2, 2023 • 18 mins
We’ve visited the 10th arrondissement and mètro Jaurès before, but never together! Luckily, Tanisha Townsend lives in this magical overlap. Find out why Tanisha lives in the 10th, where she lived before, and where she could go if she could go anywhere!
Tanisha is Chief Wine Officer and founder of GirlMeetsGlass, a wine lifestyle and education agency based in Paris. Originally from the US, Tanisha creates wine experiences for expats and tourists alike. Find out more on her website https://www.girlmeetsglass.com/ or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GirlMeetsGlass/
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Tanisha is Chief Wine Officer and founder of GirlMeetsGlass, a wine lifestyle and education agency based in Paris. Originally from the US, Tanisha creates wine experiences for expats and tourists alike. Find out more on her website https://www.girlmeetsglass.com/ or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GirlMeetsGlass/
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You're listening to Paris A State ofMind on Paris Underground Radio. For more
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Welcome to Paris A State of Mind. Join us as we talk about
the good, the bad, theends, the outs of property, rentals
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and purchases in and around Paris.We'll have topics for renters, owners and
visitors, share questions we are regularlyasked and more. My name is Gail
Barclaire of Perfectly Paris and my cohost is Marie Pistignier of Lokim Paris.
Be a part of it. Bothof us are proud members of the SPLM,
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the first representative body of furnished rentalprofessionals. Hello, listeners, out
Indeed podcast world, We are comingto you with the Paris a State of
Mind episode, talking about running aroundthe city of Paris virtually in the different
arrondees, malls and the different areasof Paris. And today we're talking about
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another area that we haven't hit yet. So we have a very special guest.
Some of you may know her becauseshe's famous all the world over for
all of the wonderful things that shedoes in Paris, and if you don't
know her well, you'll want tofind out how to get to know her.
So today on the show, wehave Tanisha Townsend. She is the
chief wine officer and founder of Girlmeets Glass, a wine lifestyle and education
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agency based in Paris. Tanisha's originallyfrom the USA and she creates wine experiences
for ex pats, tourists and anyonewho wants. I don't know if she
does pets or children. Children areprobably under age, but we can ask
that question. Tanisha, welcome.Thank you so much. You cannot please
compliment you on your podcast voice.That voice is amazing. I've never heard
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your podcast voice before. I loveit. I love it. Well,
thank you for having me here.Thank you so. Getting back to the
topic at hand, what a Rodismall do you currently live in? Tanisha,
I live in the tenth. Well, you know the tenth is there's
a lot of trendiness about the tenthbut I guess let's we'll find out a
little bit more. And what isthe closest metro station? There are a
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few. For line two is Jarress, which I think we'll be talking about
today. For line seven, Chateaulanding and then I also walk up to
guard lest if I want the fouror the five. But yeah, I
think your closest one is Jarress,and I think it's a good one to
talk about. I actually have anapartment that I manage by Metro Jarress,
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and it's an area that a lotof people are not familiar with. And
so so this is why this isreally great to have you on the podcast.
Well, and it's great anyway tohave you on the podcast. Let
me true throw that in there.So, how long have you lived in
the area around Jarress. I've livedin an area for three years now.
I moved in right before at Lockdown, the month before we went in the
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lockdown. I actually remember when youmoved in, crazy and so why did
you choose to live where you do? Was it just a matter of what
you found or was it an areathat you sought to be in. Definitely
was a matter of where I foundan apartment. I had to hurry up
and leave my other apartment because itwas a sub lease and the person was
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coming back, and this was inJanuary. So trying to find a new
apartment in January, I feel likethat's always a tough time. Because people
aren't moving. People are just comingback from the holidays and you know,
all of that kind of thing,and they aren't moving. So the tenth
was actually the last place I addedin because I was living in the seventeenth
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at the time. So I lookedin the seventeenth. Then I opened it
up to the eighteenth. Then someoneelse said we'll open it up to the
ninth. I was like, okay, So I'm looking in all these areas
and not finding anything or not beingaccepted anywhere. So I was like,
okay, fine, but tenth two. So I've put in the tenth and
then they finally accepted someone accepted Audosia, and I was like, yes,
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let's do it. So it's amatter of definitely where I found an apart
not necessarily where I wanted to be. Yeah, And I mean, that's
good that you prefaced it. Youdid try all kinds of other areas before.
And so even though it wasn't thechoice of where you wanted to move
where you sell yourself living, doyou feel the same way about that now
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or do you wish you lived inanother area? Yet this is really a
true example of everything happens for areason, why nothing else worked out,
but the temp did. Like Isaid at the tenth of the last addition
to my socialist and now I can'timagine being anywhere else. I don't want
to live in another area. Iwant to live where I live right now.
I love this neighborhood. Don't moveme anywhere. Like, what do
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you love most about it? Whatis it that really has sold you now
and made this area of your home? The canal, it's always something happened
around the canal, or even ifit's not, it's just something that it
inspires me to get out and walkbecause the canal is there. I can
walk up and down the canal.There are coffee shops, there bars,
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restaurants, there's a movie theater that'sright there. There are electric boats,
and this part of Jahaz, partof it's the tenth and then you walk
a little further and you just slipinto the nineteenth and the electric boats.
That might be a little more inthe nineteenth, but still you have the
electric boats that you can ride onthe canal. There are trees. It's
the summer now, so there's perryplage. So they have beach chairs and
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they have stands up with ice creamtheir markets over there and shopping, and
I have friends that live in theneighborhood. They're like, who, no,
I'll meet someone. They're like,oh, I live here. I'm
like, well, that's a twominute walk for me. Fantastic. And
so there are times I literally don'teven leave the neighborhood, but I get
everything done and I see people andgo places. So it's yeah, I'm
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so pleased. And do you feelthat the area it has a certain vibe
for a certain type of people likefamilies, couples, swinging, singles.
People keep saying that it has thisbobo vibe, which take that how you
want. I don't know what thatword means. Do I guess it's like
bohemian, but then also something else. I'm not sure, but I do
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feel like it has a vibe,But I don't think it's like specifically for
singles, couples, families. Ifeel like all of those people can coexist
in this area. I feel likethere's a lot to do for everyone,
and then for the couples and thesingles who still you don't want to hang
out. There are plenty of restaurants, plenty of bars that you can go
to, whether you are into beer, wine, coffee. I just passed
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in the African restaurants at Slash grocerystore like a week ago. There are
just so many things over here.It's true. It's I know, when
I first moved to Paris, itwas kind of at the time. I
mean that was in two thousan onewas it yesterday, and it was a
different vibe along the canal at thetime where it was. I guess it
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had less bars, it had lessof a nightlife at the time, and
it's really turned into a very vibrantarea in terms of things to do in
the evening. Absolutely definitely, AndI guess it's there's something that you wish
that you knew about living in thearea that you didn't know before you moved
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here that our listeners should know.Not really, I mean I had like
twenty minutes to research it before Imoved in. I guess I didn't really
know too much. I just knew, Okay, there's a canal there,
so there's water. But people didtell me things about it because you mentioned
to me, just you know,be mindful of my surroundings when I'm out
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in the evening, and that's somethingthat I have always been mindful of the
Jarass Metro with it being that's anabove ground one, so going underneath the
tracks or things like that that canbe a little sketchy after dark. So
that's something that I'm just my club. There are other ways I can get
home and other streets I can take, so you know, I can avoid
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that part, no worries. Butother than that, no, it's something
I wish I knew that I don'tknow, but no, I do agree
to as he said, to bemindful. But I mean, it's a
big city, and people sometimes forgetthe big cities are the same all over
the world. You always have topay attention. Absolutely, there are always
some places that you're just like thisplace. By day it's one thing.
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By night it's another. I'm fromChicago in the state, so Chicago definitely
has a reputation of having some areasthat you don't want to mess around with
at certain times. So that's notsomething that I'm not used to. I
don't have this view of big cities, especially pairs utopian. Everything is grand
and beautiful than I could walk whereverI want at any time of the day.
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That's unrealistic in an actual city,A big city so yeah, just
be careful. You should take thatwith you where you will be careful.
It's true. I was coming,as we were saying before we started recording.
I came back late last night.It was around midnight, not at
the oasis though, and I tookthe Metro back home. And so,
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of course I'm a single woman walkingdown the street at midnight, And it's
not that I think that I'm notsafe in my area. However, you
do have to be aware if you'reon a street and maybe there's less people
around or what have you, tojust pay attention. The good thing,
however, about Charless is there arealways a lot of people milling about that
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metro and that's a positive thing.Yes, when you get out of in
a metro station and there's no onethere, you kind of get freaked out
a little bit. And when there'sa lot of people there, you do
have a better chance of having somebodya good samaritan. Most often some guy
is going to come to the rescue. Yes, let that women need men
to come to the rescue. Bythe way, all listeners in the podcast
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world, we can save ourselves.But there are a lot of times that
I've seen men come to the rescueof women in Paris. Absolutely, And
also when there's a lot of peoplearound like that, they aren't paying attention
to you, like they are worriedabout themselves and doing their own little male
thing bonding, argument, drinking,whatever, and they're not paying attention to
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me. So it doesn't matter.So I get off the metro or you
know, I need to walk by. I just walk like I with a
purpose, like I know where I'mgoing when I'm doing and then that's that.
I'm fine. Yeah, walk talland carry a big stick. I
don't have a big stick. Well, we're going to get you in or
maybe a big umbrella. Oh alittle type this is Do you have anything
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else that you'd like to add Forlisteners about the area, I want to
say, come visited, especially likeas a tourist, I think it's a
cool area to just come and seebecause it definitely gives you a different view
of Paris. It doesn't have thesame view would say like sander Man or
around the Arc or around the EiffelTower or something like that. The architecture
is different, the vibe is different, the buildings look different, the kind
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of places you eat are different.And for people who are looking for somewhere
to move and to live. Imean, I want to say, come
visit it because you'd like it.But then on the other hand, I'm
like, no, because I don'twant it to be too crowded. So
take that how you want. Here'sthe big question that I always ask everyone.
Imagine that they met magic fairy godmotherof apartments comes down and says,
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Tanisha, you can live in anytype or style of apartment you want anywhere
in the city of Paris. Whattype of apartment would it be and where
would it be located. Definitely wouldwant an apartment with balcony, oh yeah,
and if it did like a littleslight wrap around, so I wanted
to be kind of high so Ican look out and see stuff. I've
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never had an apartment with any kindof view of anything since I've lived here.
It's always been like a courtyard view, or maybe I can just see
the street in front of me,something like that. So I would like
to be up a little higher withthe view. Definitely want to have an
elevator in the building. I wanta kitchen separate from the living room.
I like having that separation, soI will want that. I would want
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to be a space where I couldentertain. I want the living room dining
room to have a space for atable and I can have people for dinner.
I could do wine tastings at myplace, because I would absolutely love
to just do that, because Ihave all these ideas for different wine food
parents and I want to do that. But my place doesn't really make for
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that because it's all the living room, kitchen that's all together. So I
would want that separated. I wanta crown molding chandeliers. Okay, not
grand like Versailles chandeliers, but Iwould want, you know, a little
more Frenchy type apartment, maybe withthe French doors separating one room from another,
something like that in storage AND's likethat, so very typical house,
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many and almost type of building thatexactly like I'm seeing it in my hay.
But of course I can't describe itthe way I want to. But
as man and what area, youknow, what I wanted in the area
i'm in, I don't. Idon't want to be in another area now.
And that's funny because I've never feltout about other places that I've been.
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I've lived in the fifth, theeighteen, the seventeen, the eleventh,
and the tenth. Now that I'mthere, I'm like, nope,
this we're good here. That's goodthat you've went around all those different areas,
and the other areas are areas whereyou wanted to try to live in.
I thought so yes. I thoughtlike, oh wow, the fifth
and sembi Schelle, that was myfirst apartment. I was like, Oh,
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this is so cute, and it'sso busy and it's so much stuff.
But then after a little bit,I was like, oh, it's
so busy, it's so much stuff. Like that part I didn't like.
It was, you know, it'stoo much. But then I also think,
like, it will be kind ofcool to step out on the arras
and see the Affle Tower or tosee the Arc de Trio. But then
those neighborhoods don't have the same vibeor the same character that I like,
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like where am I going to geta bag? Get over there right?
Or croissant in the morning, likewhere is my market? It doesn't happen.
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and now back to Paris A Stateof Mind Mind. I think that what
you just said right now is kindof important because it's almost like getting into
a relationship with someone. Right youstart this relationship for romantic when we're talking
about and you love all these thingsabout this person and you think, oh,
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this is so great. By thetime the relationship comes to the end,
usually all those things that you lovedrive you absolutely insane. Yes,
that's it exactly. You're like allthat stuff that's cute, those little quirks,
You're like, oh my gosh,I want to push you downstairs,
like those things are annoying. ButI think it's true. And it's the
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same for living in an area.Yeah, that's good. So you would
want a nice high rised Tasmanian buildingwith the balcony wrap around in the tenth
Yeah, you never know, keepthinking positive thoughts. Put it out there
to the universe, right, andsince I just said it out loud,
hey, who knows what's gonna happenexactly? Who knows who's listening? And
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so thank you very much, Tannisia. That was really great. Absolutely.
I think though, I'd like toturn it over to you now to tell
the listeners more about yourself and howthey can get in contact with you,
what you do, what you offer, etc. So just a little bit
more about me the Wind Lifestyle Agencyin creating experiences. I do day trips
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to Champagne. So if you haveever wanted to go out to Champagne,
which is just a forty five minutetrain ride or an hour and a half
two hours by a car, Itake you out there whisky away and we
drink champagne. We talk history,we talk solio types, we talk to
grads, and we just have agood time. I also do wine tours
in the city where we go todifferent wine bars, visit the cavies,
to things like that, just togive you kind of a crash course on
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French wine. A lot of peopleknow that French wine is like the best
in the world, so they comehere and they want to learn more about
it and I am here to helpthem with that. I also do some
writing. So you can find meonline then call me Girl meets Glass.
So my website is girl Meisglass dotcom and I'm Girl Me's Glass on all
forms of social media. So ifyou want to find out more about me
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or keep up with doing things likethat, that's where you can find me.
Woo hoo. Well, thank you, thank you, Tanisha. This
has been fabulous. Thank you andquick. I love book good quick,
got the information in quick to thepoint. Yes, thanks again, Tunisia,
and I hope to see you liveand in person really soon. Thank
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Welcome to Paris A State of Mind. Join us as we talk about
the good, the bad, theends, the outs of property, rentals
(00:22):
and purchases in and around Paris.We'll have topics for renters, owners and
visitors, share questions we are regularlyasked and more. My name is Gail
Barclaire of Perfectly Paris and my cohost is Marie Pistignier of Lokim Paris.
Be a part of it. Bothof us are proud members of the SPLM,
(00:43):
the first representative body of furnished rentalprofessionals. Hello, listeners, out
Indeed podcast world, We are comingto you with the Paris a State of
Mind episode, talking about running aroundthe city of Paris virtually in the different
arrondees, malls and the different areasof Paris. And today we're talking about
(01:07):
another area that we haven't hit yet. So we have a very special guest.
Some of you may know her becauseshe's famous all the world over for
all of the wonderful things that shedoes in Paris, and if you don't
know her well, you'll want tofind out how to get to know her.
So today on the show, wehave Tanisha Townsend. She is the
chief wine officer and founder of Girlmeets Glass, a wine lifestyle and education
(01:33):
agency based in Paris. Tanisha's originallyfrom the USA and she creates wine experiences
for ex pats, tourists and anyonewho wants. I don't know if she
does pets or children. Children areprobably under age, but we can ask
that question. Tanisha, welcome.Thank you so much. You cannot please
compliment you on your podcast voice.That voice is amazing. I've never heard
(01:57):
your podcast voice before. I loveit. I love it. Well,
thank you for having me here.Thank you so. Getting back to the
topic at hand, what a Rodismall do you currently live in? Tanisha,
I live in the tenth. Well, you know the tenth is there's
a lot of trendiness about the tenthbut I guess let's we'll find out a
little bit more. And what isthe closest metro station? There are a
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few. For line two is Jarress, which I think we'll be talking about
today. For line seven, Chateaulanding and then I also walk up to
guard lest if I want the fouror the five. But yeah, I
think your closest one is Jarress,and I think it's a good one to
talk about. I actually have anapartment that I manage by Metro Jarress,
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and it's an area that a lotof people are not familiar with. And
so so this is why this isreally great to have you on the podcast.
Well, and it's great anyway tohave you on the podcast. Let
me true throw that in there.So, how long have you lived in
the area around Jarress. I've livedin an area for three years now.
I moved in right before at Lockdown, the month before we went in the
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lockdown. I actually remember when youmoved in, crazy and so why did
you choose to live where you do? Was it just a matter of what
you found or was it an areathat you sought to be in. Definitely
was a matter of where I foundan apartment. I had to hurry up
and leave my other apartment because itwas a sub lease and the person was
(03:25):
coming back, and this was inJanuary. So trying to find a new
apartment in January, I feel likethat's always a tough time. Because people
aren't moving. People are just comingback from the holidays and you know,
all of that kind of thing,and they aren't moving. So the tenth
was actually the last place I addedin because I was living in the seventeenth
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at the time. So I lookedin the seventeenth. Then I opened it
up to the eighteenth. Then someoneelse said we'll open it up to the
ninth. I was like, okay, So I'm looking in all these areas
and not finding anything or not beingaccepted anywhere. So I was like,
okay, fine, but tenth two. So I've put in the tenth and
then they finally accepted someone accepted Audosia, and I was like, yes,
(04:06):
let's do it. So it's amatter of definitely where I found an apart
not necessarily where I wanted to be. Yeah, And I mean, that's
good that you prefaced it. Youdid try all kinds of other areas before.
And so even though it wasn't thechoice of where you wanted to move
where you sell yourself living, doyou feel the same way about that now
(04:28):
or do you wish you lived inanother area? Yet this is really a
true example of everything happens for areason, why nothing else worked out,
but the temp did. Like Isaid at the tenth of the last addition
to my socialist and now I can'timagine being anywhere else. I don't want
to live in another area. Iwant to live where I live right now.
I love this neighborhood. Don't moveme anywhere. Like, what do
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you love most about it? Whatis it that really has sold you now
and made this area of your home? The canal, it's always something happened
around the canal, or even ifit's not, it's just something that it
inspires me to get out and walkbecause the canal is there. I can
walk up and down the canal.There are coffee shops, there bars,
(05:11):
restaurants, there's a movie theater that'sright there. There are electric boats,
and this part of Jahaz, partof it's the tenth and then you walk
a little further and you just slipinto the nineteenth and the electric boats.
That might be a little more inthe nineteenth, but still you have the
electric boats that you can ride onthe canal. There are trees. It's
the summer now, so there's perryplage. So they have beach chairs and
(05:34):
they have stands up with ice creamtheir markets over there and shopping, and
I have friends that live in theneighborhood. They're like, who, no,
I'll meet someone. They're like,oh, I live here. I'm
like, well, that's a twominute walk for me. Fantastic. And
so there are times I literally don'teven leave the neighborhood, but I get
everything done and I see people andgo places. So it's yeah, I'm
(05:57):
so pleased. And do you feelthat the area it has a certain vibe
for a certain type of people likefamilies, couples, swinging, singles.
People keep saying that it has thisbobo vibe, which take that how you
want. I don't know what thatword means. Do I guess it's like
bohemian, but then also something else. I'm not sure, but I do
(06:20):
feel like it has a vibe,But I don't think it's like specifically for
singles, couples, families. Ifeel like all of those people can coexist
in this area. I feel likethere's a lot to do for everyone,
and then for the couples and thesingles who still you don't want to hang
out. There are plenty of restaurants, plenty of bars that you can go
to, whether you are into beer, wine, coffee. I just passed
(06:43):
in the African restaurants at Slash grocerystore like a week ago. There are
just so many things over here.It's true. It's I know, when
I first moved to Paris, itwas kind of at the time. I
mean that was in two thousan onewas it yesterday, and it was a
different vibe along the canal at thetime where it was. I guess it
(07:06):
had less bars, it had lessof a nightlife at the time, and
it's really turned into a very vibrantarea in terms of things to do in
the evening. Absolutely definitely, AndI guess it's there's something that you wish
that you knew about living in thearea that you didn't know before you moved
(07:29):
here that our listeners should know.Not really, I mean I had like
twenty minutes to research it before Imoved in. I guess I didn't really
know too much. I just knew, Okay, there's a canal there,
so there's water. But people didtell me things about it because you mentioned
to me, just you know,be mindful of my surroundings when I'm out
(07:49):
in the evening, and that's somethingthat I have always been mindful of the
Jarass Metro with it being that's anabove ground one, so going underneath the
tracks or things like that that canbe a little sketchy after dark. So
that's something that I'm just my club. There are other ways I can get
home and other streets I can take, so you know, I can avoid
(08:11):
that part, no worries. Butother than that, no, it's something
I wish I knew that I don'tknow, but no, I do agree
to as he said, to bemindful. But I mean, it's a
big city, and people sometimes forgetthe big cities are the same all over
the world. You always have topay attention. Absolutely, there are always
some places that you're just like thisplace. By day it's one thing.
(08:35):
By night it's another. I'm fromChicago in the state, so Chicago definitely
has a reputation of having some areasthat you don't want to mess around with
at certain times. So that's notsomething that I'm not used to. I
don't have this view of big cities, especially pairs utopian. Everything is grand
and beautiful than I could walk whereverI want at any time of the day.
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That's unrealistic in an actual city,A big city so yeah, just
be careful. You should take thatwith you where you will be careful.
It's true. I was coming,as we were saying before we started recording.
I came back late last night.It was around midnight, not at
the oasis though, and I tookthe Metro back home. And so,
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of course I'm a single woman walkingdown the street at midnight, And it's
not that I think that I'm notsafe in my area. However, you
do have to be aware if you'reon a street and maybe there's less people
around or what have you, tojust pay attention. The good thing,
however, about Charless is there arealways a lot of people milling about that
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metro and that's a positive thing.Yes, when you get out of in
a metro station and there's no onethere, you kind of get freaked out
a little bit. And when there'sa lot of people there, you do
have a better chance of having somebodya good samaritan. Most often some guy
is going to come to the rescue. Yes, let that women need men
to come to the rescue. Bythe way, all listeners in the podcast
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world, we can save ourselves.But there are a lot of times that
I've seen men come to the rescueof women in Paris. Absolutely, And
also when there's a lot of peoplearound like that, they aren't paying attention
to you, like they are worriedabout themselves and doing their own little male
thing bonding, argument, drinking,whatever, and they're not paying attention to
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me. So it doesn't matter.So I get off the metro or you
know, I need to walk by. I just walk like I with a
purpose, like I know where I'mgoing when I'm doing and then that's that.
I'm fine. Yeah, walk talland carry a big stick. I
don't have a big stick. Well, we're going to get you in or
maybe a big umbrella. Oh alittle type this is Do you have anything
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else that you'd like to add Forlisteners about the area, I want to
say, come visited, especially likeas a tourist, I think it's a
cool area to just come and seebecause it definitely gives you a different view
of Paris. It doesn't have thesame view would say like sander Man or
around the Arc or around the EiffelTower or something like that. The architecture
is different, the vibe is different, the buildings look different, the kind
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of places you eat are different.And for people who are looking for somewhere
to move and to live. Imean, I want to say, come
visit it because you'd like it.But then on the other hand, I'm
like, no, because I don'twant it to be too crowded. So
take that how you want. Here'sthe big question that I always ask everyone.
Imagine that they met magic fairy godmotherof apartments comes down and says,
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Tanisha, you can live in anytype or style of apartment you want anywhere
in the city of Paris. Whattype of apartment would it be and where
would it be located. Definitely wouldwant an apartment with balcony, oh yeah,
and if it did like a littleslight wrap around, so I wanted
to be kind of high so Ican look out and see stuff. I've
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never had an apartment with any kindof view of anything since I've lived here.
It's always been like a courtyard view, or maybe I can just see
the street in front of me,something like that. So I would like
to be up a little higher withthe view. Definitely want to have an
elevator in the building. I wanta kitchen separate from the living room.
I like having that separation, soI will want that. I would want
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to be a space where I couldentertain. I want the living room dining
room to have a space for atable and I can have people for dinner.
I could do wine tastings at myplace, because I would absolutely love
to just do that, because Ihave all these ideas for different wine food
parents and I want to do that. But my place doesn't really make for
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that because it's all the living room, kitchen that's all together. So I
would want that separated. I wanta crown molding chandeliers. Okay, not
grand like Versailles chandeliers, but Iwould want, you know, a little
more Frenchy type apartment, maybe withthe French doors separating one room from another,
something like that in storage AND's likethat, so very typical house,
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many and almost type of building thatexactly like I'm seeing it in my hay.
But of course I can't describe itthe way I want to. But
as man and what area, youknow, what I wanted in the area
i'm in, I don't. Idon't want to be in another area now.
And that's funny because I've never feltout about other places that I've been.
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I've lived in the fifth, theeighteen, the seventeen, the eleventh,
and the tenth. Now that I'mthere, I'm like, nope,
this we're good here. That's goodthat you've went around all those different areas,
and the other areas are areas whereyou wanted to try to live in.
I thought so yes. I thoughtlike, oh wow, the fifth
and sembi Schelle, that was myfirst apartment. I was like, Oh,
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this is so cute, and it'sso busy and it's so much stuff.
But then after a little bit,I was like, oh, it's
so busy, it's so much stuff. Like that part I didn't like.
It was, you know, it'stoo much. But then I also think,
like, it will be kind ofcool to step out on the arras
and see the Affle Tower or tosee the Arc de Trio. But then
those neighborhoods don't have the same vibeor the same character that I like,
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like where am I going to geta bag? Get over there right?
Or croissant in the morning, likewhere is my market? It doesn't happen.
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and now back to Paris A Stateof Mind Mind. I think that what
you just said right now is kindof important because it's almost like getting into
a relationship with someone. Right youstart this relationship for romantic when we're talking
about and you love all these thingsabout this person and you think, oh,
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this is so great. By thetime the relationship comes to the end,
usually all those things that you lovedrive you absolutely insane. Yes,
that's it exactly. You're like allthat stuff that's cute, those little quirks,
You're like, oh my gosh,I want to push you downstairs,
like those things are annoying. ButI think it's true. And it's the
(15:39):
same for living in an area.Yeah, that's good. So you would
want a nice high rised Tasmanian buildingwith the balcony wrap around in the tenth
Yeah, you never know, keepthinking positive thoughts. Put it out there
to the universe, right, andsince I just said it out loud,
hey, who knows what's gonna happenexactly? Who knows who's listening? And
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so thank you very much, Tannisia. That was really great. Absolutely.
I think though, I'd like toturn it over to you now to tell
the listeners more about yourself and howthey can get in contact with you,
what you do, what you offer, etc. So just a little bit
more about me the Wind Lifestyle Agencyin creating experiences. I do day trips
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to Champagne. So if you haveever wanted to go out to Champagne,
which is just a forty five minutetrain ride or an hour and a half
two hours by a car, Itake you out there whisky away and we
drink champagne. We talk history,we talk solio types, we talk to
grads, and we just have agood time. I also do wine tours
in the city where we go todifferent wine bars, visit the cavies,
to things like that, just togive you kind of a crash course on
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French wine. A lot of peopleknow that French wine is like the best
in the world, so they comehere and they want to learn more about
it and I am here to helpthem with that. I also do some
writing. So you can find meonline then call me Girl meets Glass.
So my website is girl Meisglass dotcom and I'm Girl Me's Glass on all
forms of social media. So ifyou want to find out more about me
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or keep up with doing things likethat, that's where you can find me.
Woo hoo. Well, thank you, thank you, Tanisha. This
has been fabulous. Thank you andquick. I love book good quick,
got the information in quick to thepoint. Yes, thanks again, Tunisia,
and I hope to see you liveand in person really soon. Thank
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you so much. This is apleasure. Thanks for listening to Paris A
State of Mind featuring Gale of PerfectlyParis and Marie of Lokim, both who
are founding members of the SPLM.Paris A State of Mind is produced by
Paris Underground Radio, the Music Jazzand Paris Is by Medium Right Productions.
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