Monday 14th September - Coffee It was past coffee time and we walked past maybe 50 cafe/restaurants along the Quai and dcide to stop and have a fix. Double espresso was ok but cappuccino was awful and not like we had had in Italy, the land that invented coffee. There were hundreds of yachts moored in the dozens of marinas along both sides of the Quai. Tour boats, ferries, scullers, water taxis you name it it was on the water. After an awful coffee, hop...

Monday 14th September - Vieux-Port We started off down in the lift only to find that one of us had forgotten their sunglasses - normally it's me. We walked down to the port level down some stairs and out onto the very wide Quai de Rive Neuve. There were these little trains that were hurrying along the Quai but with no one on them so we suspected that they were getting ready to start the day.

Monday 14th September - Marseilles We woke up to the sound of 3 or 4 church bells ringing away to no tune in particular. After another shower, we must be the cleanest people on the planet but are not saving the planet's water, we had homemade fruit salad with the fruit that we purchased last night on our way back to the apartment. It was great. We just sat there and looked at the view from our 14th storey apartment windows overlooking the Vieux-Port of Ma...

Monday 14th September - Watching the World Go by We wandered down to the Quai about 4.00pm and watched the little trains come in with all of the tourists on board. We went and sat at a table under an umbrella and had a beer each and people watched. We chatted with a couple of Brits who had just arrived today by train from London. I don't think he wanted to talk though. Then wandered back to our apartment via our local "dairy/fruiterer. We wanted breadcrum...

Sunday 13th September - Flight to Marseilles We got on board the plane, A320 Airbus by getting onboard a bus from the terminal and getting a 10 minute ride out to the plane waiting on a concrete apron. The plane started to move off down the taxiway and the captain told us that we were 10-12 in line to take off BUT because of the electrical storm around Rome no planes were allowed to take off. We sat there for 1 hour but eventually the plane got airborne and the...