Calanques Cassis

Today is a beautiful sunny day. It is 18 degrees with a light breeze. It is the perfect day for a hike. Yesterday, we took a boat tour and visited 3 different Calanques. Today we will hike to the last Calanque that we saw on the tour, La Calanque De En Vau. Now, I've done lots of hiking in my day; I grew up on the Niagara Escarpment for goodness …

Everyone was really tired today so we slept in and took it easy in the morning.

Hike #2 out to the second calanque

The mall in Aubagne for David to get a haircut, grocery shopping at Auchan, and dinner at Pizza Pia.

Acordamos cedinho e fomos em direção a Cassis. Ao chegarmos lá tentamos ir direto para os calanques, Fernanda tinha dito que muitas vezes a entrada fechava cedo. Como não sabíamos exatamente como seria calanque em frances terminamos pegando um ...

... 18 degrees with a light breeze.  It is the perfect day for a hike.  Yesterday, we took a boat tour and visited 3 different Calanques.  Today we will hike to the last Calanque that we saw on the tour, La Calanque De En Vau.  Now, I've ...

... we walked to the Harbor and boarded a 40 minute boat tour for The Calanques; a group of rock formations on the coast of Cassis, France. The Calanques were formed by the glaciers in the end of the ice age. As the glaciers melted some of the rock stuck to ...

... . In between, the crescent of cafes hugging the shoreline boasted crowded tables and tempting aromas. A trip to Cassis cannot be complete before seeing Les Calanques, the French term for narrow fingers of inlets carved into the cliffs along the ...

... . Their composition can greatly vary depending on their location: Marseille calanques are formed from tertiary limestone. Cassis calanques are formed from secondary era rocks deposited by rudist molluscos, before the Cretaceous-Tertiary ...

... .  It's warm and sunny and the waves are crashing into shore; I love it!!  A huge navy aircraft comes in low from the calanques side of the harbour, banks and then takes of towards the far side of the Cape. I love it here.  We pack up and ...

... and stopped at a small cafe on the water to enjoy the sunshine. Although rose is the predominant wine here in the south of France, Cassis is famous for their white wines. There are only 12 or 13 different producers in this small area.  All the ...

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... noted this earlier, but the base that the statue of liberty sits on was carved out of the rock here in Cassis.   We hiked about 6 miles, we would guess and it was pretty much a full day.  We stopped ...

I spent nearly a week in the languid, lazy, luxurious and glorious region of Cassis, the Calanques and Marseille ... i.e the south of France. Imagine a week of fine wine and food, glorious sunny days, warm sea and beautiful landscapes, both of the ...