Mercure Eurocentre Marseille

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Pour conclure, as I feel that this 'essay' will do for now, I've really noticed the French love for dogs...there are more fat dogs here than there are fat people, and they take them everywhere, even into shops and supermarkets. Hygenic?

So, all in all, the first 6 weeks have been awesome. This week I got a pretty bad case of the homesickness and generally feeling a bit low, I forget that for the first time in my life I'm actually living on my own ...

Bonjour avec Aix-en-Provence Cherie
Since the last news we have visited the Cote D'Azur spending time at Monte Carlo and Antibes. We stayed near Antibes at a place called Biot and at night you could hear the seals at nearby Marineland - very strange. It was still quite hot and stickey with more mozzies. Monte Carlo was wall to wall money with billions of dollars in boats and cars. Antibes was similar but it had a lovely old town as well.
We arrived ...

... 8230; window open inviting… people like ants scurrying around below in a hurry to go nowhere… a big porcelain pot over in the corner… But I’ll have to keep looking. There’s one more possibility, another place here close to the gare. I feel like a bird scurrying around with a piece of straw and no place to lay it down. That’s the only thing Jesus said where he really blew it. "Do the ...

... is the brioche sucre; mine is the pan au chocolat. King Tut was panhandling near the Eiffel Tower the other day when I was there. He wasn’t holding his hand out or anything, he was merely swathed in gold lame, wearing his ceremonial headdress, seated next to a donation plate.

I think that all travel experiences include at least one encounter with a crazy driver. Today we were impressed with how badly one guy wanted to pass people. He'd pass one, wait, then ...

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Marseilles hotels are almost TOO cheap, but some close the doors early, and some are simply- I never thought I’d say this- below my standards. In France that means not only might there not be a shower attached to the room, but THERE MIGHT NOT BE ONE IN THE ENTIRE HOTEL. I’m not joking, and places that basic might be rare nowadays, but optional bath-for-a-charge is not. Maybe that will answer some longstanding questions for you. Now ...

... shots of the city. It is amazing how different the city looks from this angle. As you drive through there is dirty streets and poverty but all you see from this vantage point is a bustling city on an amazing stretch of coast line. The beach is typical European crowds but beautiful blue water.

Next stop is the Notre Dame cathedral. This sits on a large hill with great views of the city and the port. The church itself has ...

I sleep in and get just in time for breakfast. No sign of Matt, I then go and have a shower and head off to pick up my computer as the shop opens at 10am and I want to be the first person there as I have my train down to Marseille. It is raining again - Paris is crying because I am leaving. I go and pick up my computer, there is a problem, the memory stick is not packed with it. So I agree that I will have the stick taken off my account. They also ...

... them coming. Apparently half our genes are devoted to smell. Now you know why. That leaves room for a lot of creativity in Evolution by the way. But the junkies in Van City don't care about that; they have another concern. They also have their own district between the upscale part of Gastown and Chinatown. They roost like vultures, gravitating to the sunlight and surveying the terrain for easy pickings. Zoologists ...

... weren't working - luckily, they worked with my ticket, and I was finally in!! I hadn't really given my wardrobe options too much thought...Kind of forgot that I was in the south of France in September and just thought - what would I normally wear to a rugby game....which was jeans, ankle boots and my All Blacks jersey - luckily I had thought to put a tank top on, which was my only saviour. Was a roastingly hot day - can't ...

... lived with their friend Isabelle, they had all just finished their various university degrees and were in their mid twenties and spent a lot of time organising music events and festivals. They lived in a great apartment that had been owned by an artist and had great murals and posters everywhere and a bunch of notes in the toilet from all the people that had stayed with them. They hadnt mentioned the touchy subject of rent and we ...