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Verteuil - highlighted in a new book!!

3/28/2020

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A young Australian guy moved to Europe and eventually to Paris where he has now lived for five years.  Two or three years ago he started up a podcast which I happened to stumble across, and have been following since. He married a Swedish girl, and for their honeymoon, they both hopped on his red scooter and "scootered" around France in the shape of a heart at the top speed of 50km/hr.  
Oliver and Lina spent a week in Verteuil, and subsequently received a mention in his book that he has just published, "Paris on Air - a memoir", by Oliver Gee.
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Get Oliver's book here.   
It comes as an ebook, in hard copy, or even as a special audio book. 

​My short review is below - I fully recommend it.  See what Oliver has to say about Verteuil and its villagers.
"I really, really enjoyed this book!  Oliver Gee’s first book is a refreshing, romping read of his first five years living in Paris. It’s a love story – falling in love with this city, his new podcast, the lovely Lina, and of course, the Alp Slayer (affectionately known as the Red Beast). 
This is the perfect book for every wannabe Parisian, one of the best of its genre that I’ve read.  By the time I turned the final page, I felt that I had been educated (I now know what the dot in the letter “i” is called), I learnt a couple of French words I truly hope never to use (for example, défenestrer), empathised with Oliver on some truly awful French lessons he experienced during his early times in Paris, and relived some of his lovely and zany podcast episodes from the last couple of years.  Oliver brings Paris and France to life through his words and experiences – I didn’t want the pages to end.
Five stars for a truly delightful, well written book that I am sure I will pick up again and again over the years".
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