Thursday 17th September - Shopping?? We started down the hill and were consulting the map and a lady came up to us and asked if she could help. We asked her where it was that she shopped for ladies clothes. "Ah follow me" she said and with that started racing downhill oblivious to the fact that Jannie had sore feet. Anyway after she stopped a couple of times for us to catch up she eventually pointed us in the direction of Gallery Lafayette and after thanks s...

Thursday 17th September - Cours Julien Jannie had seen an article about Cours Julien and how you could spend a week getting to know this little neighbourhood. It was written by someone who had lived there since 1987. Well we set off after coffee and watching a protest march by a huge group that had something to do with College avoiding the puddles and the rain had stopped and the sky was lightening an we headed up La Canabiere. We took a side street an...

Thursday 17th September - Last Day in Marseilles We got up this morning and caught up with correspondence to Gra, Mike and the next couple of places that we head to as from tomorrow, and sent a letter to Mum via Mike to post. We did the washing and hung it out on the racks attached to the balcony handrail making sure everything was pegged on securely as it was blowing a bit. Went down in the lift which takes about 50sec from go to opening the doors at ...

Wednesday 16th September - Le Panier Jan has been dying to go up to this area since we got here so we crossed the road and up the stairs to a little plaza where Bar des 13 Coins is. Colourful tables full of people so we pulled up a chair under the trees and ordered a local beer. The narrow streets are a bit of a maze and apart from one street that had an eclectic mix of shops most of the other streets were just full of old buildings that were houses or a...

Wednesday 16th September - The Major Cathedral Part of the grounds to the seaward side of the cathedral is in the process of being reclaimed to add some flat ground beside the cathedral building. The Cathedral was started in 1852 and was completed at the start of the 20th century. Its inspiration is Byzantine with green stone from Florence and marble from Carrare. It is 142m long with a 20m high nave and an 18m diameter dome. This Cathedral was a rebui...