Gare st Charles Marseille

... bathrooms strictly as a matter of space.  So I’ve got the bell tower room, high above the street and across from the Gare St. Charles, watching people come and go at all hours.  I don’t have TV, but I do have Tinariwen on my ...

... to crash at, at the end of a long day exploring... but unfortunately, Anna wasn't feeling so well by the time we reached Marseille - that's right, a return of the Labyrinthitis monster. So, it was necessary to spend many hours at our hotel, we even had to ...

... the car place. All trip advisory people say, “DON’T drive in Marseille!” So what was Marseille like? We haven’t a clue, but the Gare St Charles is very big and busy!! Tonight, we are eating in and hope to be up early in the ...

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... although I wished he had spoken English! We left way after dark and ended up staying over night at the IBIS roadside hotel outside of Marseille. Another late night and up by 6, to get to the villa by 11:30 am. Friday 3/20 Lovely on the French Riviera ...

... it wasn't until we were in the lobby, shaking the rain off, that we saw the "Fermé au public jusqu'au ----" sign. At Gare St-Charles, we found that the ticket machines do not accept credit cards, so we ended up taking a local train to Avignon, instead of ...

Go the All Blacks! Firstly let me say we enjoyed watching the game at a pub in the Vieux Port...just us 3 kiwis and 2 South Africans and a bar full of the French. Good game! Te Ball was happy as he always is! Imagine watching the game at breakfast time ...

... of the interior corridors were dark.  Couldn't help thinking that if it had been built as social housing  overlooking St Charles rather than in the posher 17/18th Arrondisement whether it might have suffered the same fate as Sheffield's Park ...

... crazy journey that I once did - flying to Paris and then getting the Metro from the airport to the Gare du Lyon. Almost missing the train for Marseille as I hadn't really allowed enough time... We continued through the rural France - golden cornfields, ...