Novotel Marseille E Valentine

... and instead went out to a great classic Provencal dinner, and got some good wine. But then, we started to see a couple kids in costumes, or rather just kids in sheets. I think one of them had a mask. But on our way back from dinner, we found the bar scene. Mostly it was just people out on a normal Saturday night, but we had to at least go check it out. We were somewhat impressed with the Halloween scene, and probably could ...

... write her address and draw a map I realized that something was terribly wrong. She drew a map of Corse (Corsca) - a little French island I the Medeterranian. We were headed to Corse, not Italy! The victim of not having an Italian map and too little internet time. Who knew? Propriano certainly sounds Italian to me&#8230;<br><br>We weighed our options: <br>1) continue on and cycle across Corse (2700m altitude ...

... about 10&#8364; on pic 'n' mix...have finally found someone else whose sweet tooth can match up to mine! Then for dinner we had the best meal that I've had since we got here...sausages, new potatoes, and Heinz baked beans. I realise that's sounds awful, as I'm supposed to be integrating into the French way of life, but during dinner I did at least have a bit of a chat with Amy's French landlord (he doesn't like Sarkozy much). Then today I tagged along with Lizzie and ...

Bonjour avec Aix-en-Provence Cherie<br>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.<br>We arrived ...

... she has to do is open her eyes to it. So before changing rooms and hotels again I inquire at the desk if she knows why I can&#8217;t get Internet.<br><br> &#8220;Did you open the registration page?&#8221;<br><br> &#8220;Huh? What registration page? How can I open a registration page if I don&#8217;t have Internet, local only?&#8221; <br><br> <br><br>She pushes the big blue e icon and a sign-up page appears; that ...

... kababs with rice. It was good. I think I can get used to this! They are probably just going easy on me because I just got here. The kids don't start school until next Wednesday (the 2nd), so I think we'll be hanging out around here a lot until then. My classes start the 7th, so I will have a few days to explore the city on my own then. Well, this has gotten really long. Claire and I are going to go swimming! I'll post pictures soon!<br>Love,<br>Hannah<br>

... were built as a commemorative monument to the arrival of new canal bringing water from the Durance river. During the afternoon we took another 'petite train' through Old Town (see map above - blue line)- which has very narrow streets. We also saw a number of sights including La Cathedrale de la Nouvelle Major. This splendid cathedral was built under the orders of Napoleon III in the 19th ...

... just didn't know why. In France bathing is optional. Smells from laboratories sell well. When the first cheap hotel I inquired about told me there were no showers, I thought she meant there were no showers in the room, i.e. down the hall. She meant none, period. The rooms have sinks, though, so I guess you can take a *****'s bath, whatever that is, in addition to whatever else a guy might do with a sink, considering ...

... was soon disappointed when I saw the (two) queues of people trying to buy tickets for the Marseille metro to get to the game. I waited in the queue for a bit, but they weren't moving very fast (not surprising, as there were only 2 people selling tickets, and at least 100 people trying to buy tickets!). So I ended up walking to the next metro station in the hope that things would be better...which they were..kind of. Station ...

... we were hell bent on making some more friends our age in Marseille. Sadly, our hopes of making friends were dashed when we went by to get the keys from them at 2pm in the afternoon and found them all asleep after a big night out at the rue de Panier(which we had gone to as well but perhaps not to the extent that they had) and having woken them up and ****** them off, we tiptoed up to our new digs. These were impressive digs, an attic above ...