Imagine to yourself the best, most beautiful aspects of Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Italy. Now translate all of that into French and you have Marseilles. I didn't know anything about the city, except that it is the second largest city in France and the Capital of Provence, but now I know that it is the most incredible place in the entire world. It might have been my favorite place I've been thus far.
We started our trip with an exploration of Marseilles and the main port. You can just imagine all the great post-impressionist artists running to Marseilles to paint the beautiful mountains, boats, sky, water, everything. We went to a couple cathedrals, which remind me a lot of the Mosque-Cathedral in Cordoba, Spain. We took a "petit train" tour of the cliffs up a mountain, as well as an incredible boat tour to see the scenery from the Ocean. We ate tons of seafood: Mussles, Bouillabaisse, Monkfish, etc. and plenty of olives. We ended our much too short trip in Cassis, a little beach city which seems to be where all the coolest Marseillese go to relax and get some sun. I myself got a little sun tan (my nose got a sun burn) and now I cannot wait to go to Greece and continue my tour of paradise.
In the meantime, some more Paris commentary, of course. Two incredible places I have seen in Paris in the Spring is the Garden in the Petit Palais, and the Musée Rodin. Paris loves cherry blossoms, and the Petit Palais is full of murals and mosaics and "foliage" as my Dad would say and is just a beautiful place. (Built for the Universal Exposition 1900, now a museum of Parisian Fine Arts). Now, the Musée Rodin is now my favorite, FAVORITE museum in Paris. Almost entirely filled with sculptures, I could just spend hours walking around the Museum. My favorites are Hell's Gates and The Kiss and I just want to spend all day in the gardens continuing my suntan, reading my homework, and just being surrounded by the fabulousness that is Paris. I guess the fabulousness will just have to be put on hold as I take my Grecian/Turkish adventure next weekend!!
I realize my post on Marseilles is much too short to do it justice. Luckily, I think my photos will more than explain how incredible the city is. Mom and Dad, we should put Marseilles down on our Provence agenda n'est-ce pas?
