Past Continuous and Past Simple in Storytelling

Past continuous is a good old standard worker day verb tense. We use it often to tell stories and sequence events. It allows us to establish situations in which other stuff happens. If you imagine like a cartoon of this you imagine me walking down the street here in paris i'm new here wow isn't it lovely look there's the eiffel toweroh watch out for that dog poo oh it's lovely being in paris I think i might order a coffee hmm you know that.