Hotel Delos Bandol

... sort out your transit system. Oh and one other thing, whoever thought it was a good idea to charge for public bathrooms deserves to have someone urinate on his front step daily.

But anyways, on my final stretch into Marseille I decided to read up on the city; I'm not planning on staying long, but I'm keen to explore for a few hours regardless. I read the following in the "Dangers and Annoyances" section of my Lonely Planet:

"Marseille isn't a hotbed of ...

... with: “the world needs more fools like you.”

Even I fluxuate in my thought about what’s goin on. Most importantly, I live day to day and try to plan out what’s needed for the immediate future (i.e. food and shelter). Some days I;m on top of the world. I feel healthy and strong, and I’m exactly where I want to be. Other days…well today was a day I felt like a ...

... chair who fell on the cobblestone streets of Capri and fractured her tibia. Like i have said before, some of these people are trying to do things they shouldn't be doing. The movie tonight on MUTS is Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with Matthew McConaughey...don't know if i can convince Bob to go but i think it sounds funny. Tomorrow the weather sounds great for Barcelona so hopefully we will have something more interesting to report. Ciao for now:)

... sequence touching land in a tornado and leaving buildings lying limbs akimbo in its wake. I like entering at some unknown entrance and just seeing where the maze will spit me out, as long as it’s still daylight. The main street is Canebiere, which I affectionately refer to as the ‘canebreak,’ in homage to my roots, and from there streets radiate in all directions.

Marseilles is pizza ...

... Chinese’ (the conspiratorial ‘they’ like the editorial ‘we’) are now targeting Europeans with their treasure fleets of Chinese junk, though. We need a sequel to ‘Nausea.’

Unfortunat ely it seems I’ve booked the bus from Hell to Marseilles, though. I forewent the 10:30pm bus in favor of the midnight ride so that I’d get in at 8am instead of 6. With France you can’t be sure they’ ...

... people from all across the globe were *****ing about how there was absolutely nothing to see or do in Marseille. I told them that is really not true and to just get out in walk for a good people watching time. Even at 9pm on a Sunday I was able to observe a part of France that I am sure is foreign even to the French. Instead of drinking beer or shots at bars, middle eastern men were drinking shots of coffee at sidewalk cafes ...

... and not Algeria.

So I woke up and had to explore on foot to see where in the world I had landed. After an hour of aimless wandering I was convinced that no of French origin lives in Marseille since I saw only people from Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria or wherever else people have moved from. The vast majority of them were wearing their traditional outfits as well and that was just plain strange to see against a backdrop of buildings that would ...

... with lots of legroom. Much better than we expected. We head East to Castellet a small village just north of the town of Bandol, but the center of the Bandol Region. We find Tempier and take some shots while we wait for them to open up in the afternoon. At DT we meet Natahlie and we taste several wines. We have a great time and purchase a couple bottles of the Rose' wine. Up next the village of Le Castellet - a mideviel hill ...

... going to the beach and the pool, eating meals with various friends and relatives and general summer activities. Their english cousins were staying in the house next door and Tim, 15 and Olivia 17, had a go at teaching them how to play cricket, but it was too utterly foreign for them and they werent amused. Unfortunately in the third week I was there, the two youngest were taken out by gastro and were bed ridden for 4 days with ...

Marseilles with Toddler We had read that Marseilles was a questionable town and we thought twice about going there with a toddler. I had been there many years before (1981) and remembered a town with good food, lots of garlic, and nice view of boats. However, reading the guidebooks, it wasn't clear that there would be much to see with Sven in tow. But we decided that a day trip from La Begude would be worth it. Our first impressions of Marseilles, besides ...