Cassis
Travel Blogs from Cassis, France
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Isso é a Cote D'azur!!!
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 ...
Hike #2
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. ...
St. Tropez
We made it to St. Tropez yesterday, down from Avignon. The drive was really nice and the closer you get to the water the more everything looks like Southern California. We pulled into the swanky town of St. Tropez only to find the entire city was a ...
WOW, what a hike!!
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 ...
Cap Canaille and Crepes
... Mistral winds today ...thank goodness!!! We visited the highest sea cliffs in Europe today. The cliff rises from the Mediterranean between Cassis and La Ciotat. The drive is a scary, which seems to be a prerequisite in Europe for all the main ...
Calanques, Coast and Crepes
... 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 ...
Wet Feet
... vacation homes. 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 ...
Cassis - the Mediterranean Sea
... . We didn't actually go to Marseille because it's notorious for crime (which is a factor with Curtis' photography equipment). Cassis was a little crescent-shaped harbour with a lighthouse, many restaurants, and the same tourist shops we saw in every ...
Complet
... prasidėjo tikrieji tos dienos nuotykiai - kempingo paieskos. Pagal mūsų is anksto pasiruostą informaciją, Cassis miestelyje zinojom esant du kempingus. Pirmajame radom uzrasą Complet, todėl nieko neliko kaip sukti kitur. ...
Cassis
... ) below. Cassis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Population² (1999) 8,001 - Density 298/km² (1999) Miscellaneous Cassis (IPA: [kasi]) is a commune situated east of Marseille in the administrative department of the ...
Last day in Cassis
... aircraft carrier out on the horizon and I try my big zoom lens out to get a better look. We haven't seen our binoculars in Cassis so we figure that we have left them behind somewhere. It is a "school day" for the kids to catch up on journals ...
Rock Collecting
We are planning on a big trip tomorrow so today is another Cassis day. After a pancake breakfast the kids work some more on their journals. It's important at this point to tie together some ideas so deeper discussions can occur. The ...
Cassis 2
Please the photos from my first visit to Cassis as well. They have good photos of the calenques from the boat tour I ...
The Easter Bunny in France prefers Lindt chocolate
... arrived in Cassis, there has been an extremely fast strong wind. We found out it was called the Mistral an extremely powerful wind in Cassis and Marseille. Today we went to the beach. While we were there I stepped on a rock and my ankle twisted sideways i ...
Frisbee friends forever.
... a prime park along the sea side in La Ciotat, where we got to steal a large amount of Mb from a local motel wifi. God bless France and their liberal internet! That morning we woke to watch an army plane land and take off of the sea nearby, as well as ...
The Italian and French Riviera
... on hillsides, like the Amalfi Coast. The biggest difference we initially noticed was that the freeway lanes seemed wider in France. After our drive through the Appenines to get to Venice, I was not looking forward to this drive. Fortunately, ...
Fjords and Fire
... school, lots of us piled on a bus and drove to Cassis which has got to be one of the cutest coastal towns in southern France. We took a little tourist train down into the town and then took a boat to see the Fjords. Le Mistral was still in full force, ...
La Fete du Vin and La Ciotat
... 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 ...
Cassis - by the sea and exactly what we're after.
... playing Petanque and arguing about the score and we saw our first set of french beach boobies out there. I'm sure you've been to France, so I'm probably saying what you already know, but: I'll say this for the French - I have yet to see any ...
Paris to Cassis
... to wrap up our stay in Bercy/Paris before heading to Cassis. We catch the Metro to get to our TGV train ride to Cassis (Southern France on the Mediterranean Sea)....read as "Wine Country". Like a baby, the motion of the train puts me sleep (I made ...
Back to Nature - hiking the Calanques of Cassis
... we 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 ...
Life is rough in the South of France...
... train was a little hard to do but it was well worth it. Today was just a relaxing day in the lovely southern city of Cassis. There were only 3 of us on the trip, Ginger, Kacie, and myself, which made the trip even less stressfull. We ...
Cassis and Calanques
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 natural ...
La Ciotat, Cassis
... si frangandu-mi mainile, ca m-apuca rasul acuma cand vad pozele. Dar sentimentul a fost ingenuu. Coborarea pe partea Cassis e mult mai spectaculoasa decat urcarea, curbele mai stranse, iar privelistea e DE VIS. Intram in Cassis, in final, si ...
Just returned from my trip
Hi everyone, I want to tell you about my holiday. It was lousy, to say the least. Probably the worst experience I ever had - to start, the flight was really long. Also, the food was no good: no one ate it.... What mattered to me was that the hotel be not ...
Can we say picturesque?
We weren't ready to brave the cold water, and the sarong from my knapsack provided little cushion from the rocky beach but between some bits of clothing that provided some headrests, we happily napped under the sun. ...
Cassis, Pastis and the Calanques
... . After more tense moments fighting through peak hour in Marseilles (we should have just taken the toll road), we arrived in quaint Cassis. We tracked down a parking spot (no mean feat) and checked into a hotel near the harbour. Tourism is the town's main ...
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