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| Farewell to St Saturnin |
Posting this a month afterwards may result in some inaccuracies..,
Prior to leaving, Allan was smart enough to book us a taxi from Heathrow to our digs in Greenwich.
Anyway, we said our goodbyes to St. Saturnin and undertook the longish journey to Marseille. Marseille is a real city, the second largest in France and quite a contrast to the perched villages we had become familiar with. Still tricky to navigate but we managed to find a carpark building to base ourselves from.
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| Tourist trains |
We hadn't researched Marseille as well as we probably should have and were wondering how we could make the most of our short time here. Fortunately we'd parked next to a 'tourist train' that drove around the city with a guided commentary! So off we went.
One of he first facts we found that Marseille is the home of bouillabaise the famous seafood stew. Evidence was found everywhere.
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| Marseiille - out to sea |
Marseille has been a significant port through the ages for France. We were fortunate that as for most of our trip we had lovely weather with gorgeous blue skies.
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| Port - downtown |
Our train ride took us around the port, up to the Notre Dame Cathedral and and around city - lasting just over an hour.
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| Notre Dame |
After the tour we lunched by the port. with rather a grand looking seafood dish - although it didn't quite live up to it's expectations. C'est la vie!
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| View from Notre Dame |
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| Seafood in Marseille |
Being ever the careful tourists we arrived at the airport in plenty of time to drop of our rental car. Unfortunately they spotted a minor scratch which they tried to get us to pay many Euro for. We refused (with some trepidation).
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| Insurance shot |
Regrettably our plane was many hours late which meant we arrived at Heathrow very very late. Eventually our booked ride found us and we ended our trip on the continent.
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