One of our favorite French cities is Marseille, France's second largest city, with about 1,000,000 people. Founded by the Greeks as Massalia in 600 BC as a prosperous trading city on the Mediterranean Sea, then later developed by the Romans, it is to this day the most important PORT of France. But instead of feeling like a huge city, it feels like a small, friendly, easy to love, fun-to-walk-around-city. Most summers, we go there at least twice. It has everythi...

Salut tout le monde! It's hard to believe we just finished week 8 here! Here are the highlights: Musique a la espagnol! Responding to an article in Tuesday's "Midi Libre", our local newspaper, Les & I headed to a nearby town, Murviel-les-Beziers, to a "nuit espagnole" at the Chateau de Coujan, a lovely vineyard. The program was tapas (oysters & mussels), wine (they gave you a glass, you bought a bottle), and Spanish music performed by La Gata Negra. Ca...