We were starving so we grabbed a quick bite to eat and then headed to see some sights. We headed to the old part of town because the lady at the tourist office circled it. There was a really cool church, but that was it, the rest was very dingy looking streets ( Which I got us lost in as I always do) and it was all uphill. So we abondened that and went to stop #2 for he day.

We jumped on the metro and headed across town. We were going to see this giant fountain and park. I got us lost again, even though it was supposed to be right by the station (are you seeing a trend here?). We back tracked and found it, it was really neat.

We hung around for a bit and then headed back for some supper. We found a decent place but then I started freakin out about prices in France for hotel and food, and what our trip was going to cost, but amber put me in my place and all was fine.

Day 2 in marseille was more eventful. We got an all day buspass to see some things around the city. First we took a bus to the highest point in the city. Yes it was a church, we've seen a lot of these but this one looked differnet so we decided to go. It was really nice and had lots of colour which was different than all other old churches that we've seen so far.

We had some gross lunch ( the French like their meat really rare, I mean like blue rare even hamburgers ).

Then I wanted to head to beach so we waited for the bus. It was around 2. The first one that came by was full so the driver didn't stop. There was a guy at the bus stop and he said the last one was full too, so should we just keep waiting or walk to an earlier stop and catch it, or catch it on the other dircetion and then it would loop around. We choose option 3, but when it got to he end and was going to loop around the driver made us get off. I was so mad, I asked him if he was going back to port and he mumbled somethign in French but made us get off. Then he looped around so that he was on the other side of the highway , going in the direction we wanted. Thank god he stopped at the first stop. I was furiuos by now. We ran to get back on, and I yelled and he just looked confused. So we took this bus to the beach , but didn't know exactly where to get off. So I thought I knew where we where and we got off. We walked back to the water and NO BEACH! So I look at our map and we got off WAY WAY Way too early. Good one doorknob. I wanted to say screw the beach and go home. But we waited for that same bus again. Finally the bus came and we finally made it to the beach around 4, so it only took 2 hours to get there and Amber was already sunburnt from waiting outside for the bus. oops

The beach was good and the view spectacular. We relaxed for a while then walked down the beach for a good hour or so to the end. By this time we were hungry so we had amazing crepes for dinner.

written by  Trevor and Amber on May 19, 2009 from Marseille, France
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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