This man tackled all of Paris on foot. Here are his tips, highlights, and lowlights.
Author: Oliver Gee
Host of The Earful Tower podcast and writer of the blog posts
🎙️ Author Stephen Clarke: A new play, wordplay, and Quasimodo
Stephen Clarke talks about his new play (and talks more about his books, swearing in French, and Rue Eugene-Gibez). And hang around for another Story from Corey, this time about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
🎙️ Olivier Giraud: What makes Parisians so unique?
Season two kicks off with Olivier Giraud, the one-man theatre sensation who teaches us all about Parisians (even though he is from Bordeaux!)
What to expect from season two of The Earful Tower
We’re (almost) back!
Ten things (besides bread) that the French call a ‘baguette’
Look, it’s Harry Potter and his magic baguette.
IN PICS: A visit to the 1900s railway in Paris that’s now abandoned
Have you ever heard of the petit ceinture of Paris? We paid a visit.
The enormous angel you’ve probably never noticed in Paris
If you’re ever walking on Rue de Turbigo, be sure to look up. Way up.
Have you ever noticed these things on doorways around Paris?
Explaining a Paris curiosity – the chasse-roue.
30 things about the Paris Metro that even Parisians don’t know
Ghost stations, renamed stations, and one that looks like a submarine…
These are the free museums in Paris on the first Sunday of each month
Fancy some culture on a Sunday?
Six untranslatable French words you’ll need for summer in France
Here’s some helpful lingo for summer in France.
The best FREE thing to do in each Paris arrondissement
Here’s how to save those euros in every district of Paris.
Bitche! The French town names that make tourists look twice
Yes, there’s really a Condom in southern France.
Six common English words you had absolutely no idea came from French
More words than you think come from French.
Eight unusual things I didn’t know about the French language until I moved to France
They don’t teach you this stuff at school.
Eight funny things I didn’t know about the French language before I moved to France
Textbook French is one thing… but the real French is more important.
🎙️ Paris scooter challenge: Top 20 in one day
Is it possible….?