Marseille

Saturday the 28^th August

So today we left Carcassone at 0930 which was pretty good for us. We had a nice breakfast at the hotel and then we made our way to Marselle. We decided that we had some time to kill, so we looked at the map and I randomly chose a location that looked like a nice drive. I am so glad that I did because we ended up in a little town called Saint Maries-de-la-Mer. Absolutely beautiful! It overlooked the meditarranian. It was a beachside town and it was just stunning. Along the water was lined with hotels and café's and shops. We spent a good hour and a half getting some lunch and wondering around.

There are horses around here everywhere. They are beautiful!

One thing we have noticed about France is that everybody has puppy dogs! In every café or resteraunt people bring their dogs along and they sit by their feet. At the lovely town we went to they even have puppy poop sections full of sand where the dogs can go and do their business. It is a beautiful day today and its only 30 degrees instead of 40 so it is quite comfortable. It is so much fun just driving around seeing where the road takes you.

We have heard some bad things about Marselle, so we were quite surprised when we were driving in and its beauty hit us! We were driving in from the South West and not the Northern side so maybe that made a difference. Our hotel was in the heart of the city, and it was just lovely. After checking in and getting a map, we walked into the city and went to the main port. We hiked up a huge hill where there was a beautiful lookout! We must have stayed there for an hour and a half just looking at the view! The streets in the city were dirty. There was litter everywhere, and the wind was so strong that it nearly knocked us off our feet, i have never experienced anything like it before! We walked back into the main city to find somewhere for dinner. We found somewhere and had a nice meal, and made our way back through the windy dirty streets back to the hotel!

Highlights of Today:

· St Maries-de-la-Mer! My gosh I want to spend a month there!!

· The puppy poo ports

· Lunch

· We caught a ferry near port st louis

• Getting seated next to a nice French couple in St Maries-de-la-Mer at lunch, and then sitting next to them randomly again at dinner in Marseille (which is the 2nd most populated city in France) at a little restaurant in the heart of the city!
  

Lowlights of Today

• The wind that knocked us off our feet!
  



• Dirty smelly streets of Marseille