Bonjour. Well we closed the doors every time we went outside last night but that didn’t stop the bloody mossies coming in so again we spent the first half hour in bed up and down squashing them!! Very hard to sleep with the constant buzzing in your ear!!
We got up and got ready for our drive into Marseille which was about 1 hour 40 minutes away. Ruby got us there ok but it is a very large city with a lot of construction work going on and we weren’t able to turn up a lot of streets she wanted us to so I think she was getting overheated. We decided to park the car and turn her off and give her a rest. We found a spot but as usual we weren’t sure if we were allowed to park there or not but did anyway. I’m not sure why we are worried because as I think I have mentioned in Italy they park anywhere and they do the same here, on corners, blocking one way streets, basically anywhere you please.
We weren’t that impressed with Marseille especially at first glance but the very small area we found, with the help of a pharmacist was quite nice. We looked around for a couple of hours stopping for a cold drink before getting back to the car which thankfully didn’t have a ticket and we didn’t have to pay for parking for a change. Yeehah, things are looking up.
We took off for Aix-en-Provence after that which only took another half hour to get to. It was a much smaller town and we were very pleasantly surprised. As soon as we parked the car and started walking up the streets they were tree lined with lots of shops, café’s, restaurants and of course the usual monuments, etc. Just what we like. We arrived there at about 1.00pm and wandered around until 5.00pm stopping for a late lunch of a ham and cheese roll. We can’t seem to work our way into the times of eating here so trying to get something (sit down) outside of what they do is very hard. We didn’t stop to eat until about 3.00pm but the rolls (or sandwiches as it said on the menu) that we managed to get were really fresh and tasty so we were very happy with that. It also turned out to be another beautiful sunny day with a top of about 30 so we are back on track. We didn’t leave there until 5 .00pm, arriving home at about 6.30 very happy travellers.
We managed to decipher the French weather station here and it looks like it is going to stay warm for the next few days. We are going to look at some local towns tomorrow that have been recommended so hopefully we are in for another brilliant day.
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