We ended up spending 3 days visiting Marseille and got a 48 hour city pass which worked out as good value as it gave reduced or free admission to a large number of things as well as free use of public transport. We managed to get internet access via our MiFi sorted out (the magic was finding the correct APN) and new tyres for Helen's brompton. We now have access to 3 different mobile phone networks which has paid off as coverage varies between them. Unfortunately the battery on my spare phone died so we have to swop SIMs if we get desperate.
The two highlights were the Beux Arts exhibition of impressionist era paintings (though the paintings we have liked most are still the ones in the exhibition we saw in Sete) and visiting Le Corbusiers' City Radieuse.
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| Roof top of the City Radieuse |
We were fortunate to be able to visit 2 of the cells (flats) in the complex as well as wander around it. The cells are compact with amazing attention to detail, especially in how people would live in them: for instance the windows on to the balcony are designed in such a way as when they are closed they double as a seat.
We climbed up to La Garde, the Catherdral overlooking the Marseille, which gives spectacular all round views.
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| Friouls and Ile d'If from La Garde |
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| Looking North from La Garde |
The wackiest thing we saw was the pink dolphins in the pool at the bottom of the palace that is now the arts museum on one side and the natural history museum on the other, reminded us of our friend Mitch's pink flamingos, but we suspect these are not lit.
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