New Hotel of Marseille

Inaugural QF1 Skybed flight to London Aix en Provence - Villa Gallici Embarking in Marseille, a 7 night cruise on the wonderful Silver Shadow Visiting Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Sete, St Tropez, Monte Carlo, Genoa (instead of Portofino), ...

... 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 ...

... , there was a purposeful action not to create a national identity card. Forgive my digression............ So we were in Marseille this weekend. It is the second largest city in France, but Marseille has a totally different feel: the colors of its ...

... la scene, united in our imaginary knowledge of the ways of the world, while the peasants wallowed in their ignorance.   Marseille is a fast food paradise.  That's good considering that sit-down meals would be about the same price as the ...

... I had chicken and he had beef. We grabbed a McFlurry each from the local McDonalds for dessert on the journey back to the hotel. By this stage, I had discovered that I had gotten quite sunburnt throughout the day... ouch. Matt wasn't too bad. Although he ...

... first part of which was spent wandering around the harbour area, admiring the buildings, after having deposited my things at the hotel. Marseille is a creamy pink city, set against pale rocky hills dotted with the deep green of pines and scrubby ...

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... nice man, 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 ...

... nbsp; That’s the moral of the story, right?  So I log on and start catching up on days of e-mail, surfage, hotel reservations, flight reservations, MySpace, FaceBook… ooohhh, God it’s warm in here, nice and cozy.  I’m in, ...

... hmmm, it’s starting to sound better.  Every time I think of a bidet, I think of Henry Miller’s Tropic. My hotel apparently even has a language test, which I barely passed.  First she tells me she has no room, and then changes her ...

... , pour gérer toutes les choses en suspens, d'abord un gros paquet de linge sale, qui de blanc est devenu ocre, le savon de Marseille n'a pu venir a bout de cette couleur qui a imprégné mes vêtements durant 3 jours de randonnée a Uluru. Le gros de la ...

... cool). For dinner our German pals had heard from some locals that due to the large north African (1/3rd) population in Marseille, that the Moroccan food was a necessary local indulgence. Our cous cous chicken dish and hot sauce was mighty delicious ...

... our evenings were filled with the tales of The Count of Monte Cristo which once completed became the impetus to set sail from Marseille to Chateau D'If.  This 16th century island prison is austere but not as spooky as we imagined.  The names of ...

... 18 June 2009 Travel to South of France 18 June 2009 20 June 2009 House in Herepian 20 June 2009 4 July 2009 Drive to Marseille 4 July 2009 4 July 2009 Marseille - Gatwick, BA2365 17:20hrs, 4 July 18:15hrs, 4 July Tony and Natalie ...

... for dinner – a pretty good meal for coach. Leaned back the precious few inches at 7:45 over the Mediterranean Sea south of Marseille, France. Woke up at 2:35 a.m. EST Thursday as we flew over Maine. We arrived into Gate C138 at 3:50 a.m. (29 ...

... starts to take on a certain regularity after a few days, wherever you go.  That's not tourism; that's traveling.  Marseille is no different.  I walk down the main thoroughfare of La Canebiere, named for its historical hemp, every day as ...

... that day. We left the low clouds and the rain on the coast, and Avignon was hot and sunny.  We'd booked a hotel online from Marseille the day before, but when we reached Hotel Regina, the desk clerk was very flustered because nobody had given her ...

... - 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, harvesting, a burned-out ...

... of my train, I took a walk to a nearish-by park and was glad to have found the one pretty area of Marseille. I even ran into Stephanie, a Foreign Service intern I'd met at the assistants' orientation the last time I was in Marseille! Small ...

... probably a rough act to follow with its posh shops and posh residents (apparently all the wealthy business people and gangsters of Marseille reside in Aix) but despite some beautiful monuments and natural features, the city as a whole seems to be ugly. I ...