France Day 8: Marseilles, Cap de Cassis, and Aix

[sharibet]

Marseilles is a vast, sprawling metropolis of refineries, docks, apartment buildings, and historic houses with terracotta tiled roofs, all crowded together in a bowl formed by the city's harbors and a ring of high limestone hills that surround the city's outskirts. (There are several harbors, some dedicated to oil and gas tankers, some for

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[fenikkusuken]

*happy sigh*

I could easily 'see' Marseilles again in my mind's eye from your description (the colours of the Mediterranean Sea's water were incredible!) and wish we'd visited Aix-en-Provence.

Avignon is wonderful; so easy to imagine all those buildings crowded with red-clad cardinals scheming in every corner, and Nimes' colosseum is where I swear I saw a ghost, or at least an echo of a Roman centurion marching down the curving concourse ahead of me.

If you visit the Pont du Gard, don't forget to sing the child's rhyme:

Sur le pont d'Avignon,
On l'y danse
tout en round!

[kokoronagomu]

you hadn't mentioned your fellow tourists-- guess things have settled down with them or you're with another group? glad you're having fewer problems with this leg of your trip.

dinner sounded wonderful-- you know i read these for the food =P

[anonymous]

Tomorrow, we're getting a full dose of history-we'll be visiting Avignon, with its famous medieval palace of the Popes, and in the afternoon, we're going to Nimes, with its many well-preserved Roman monuments.
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