Cassis We went to this great seaside village last Sat (9/27) and we shall return! It was so very pretty. We wanted to take the town's tour train but ran out to time. The train takes you out to the calanques (limestone-like fiords), one of the many reasons we want to go back. There are also boat trips to that area, plus several walking tours out of town, winery tours, and a nice town square. Garry will include pictures, but really, you can't see the charm. The town’s name is Cassis and it’s just how you would picture a French coastal [View Full Entry]

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Week 2-3: Boat trip: Last Sunday, September 14, we took a boat/ship ride out to Les Iles du Frioul (islands not far from Marseille). Although a bit windy, it was otherwise a beautiful day. One of the islands is the Ile d’If, which is the location of the prison in Alexandre Dumas’ book The Count of Monte Cristo. We landed on and hiked the big island, Ile de Ratonneau, which is the island that contains Hospital Caroline, built in 1828 to take care of those with the yellow fever plague that killed half of the people in Marseille. The Mediterranean water [View Full Entry]

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Friday, September 12, 2008: Greetings from Marseille. We hope all is going well back in the good ol’ U.S. of A. It is been an eventful week. The weather has generally very nice. We keep the windows open at night and much of the day. There are no screens on the windows because there are virtually no bugs!! We are bewildered by this. You biologists—do you have any explanation? We started off the week on a low note—we had to go to the Prefecture de Police to begin the process of getting our long-stay card. It was a rude welcoming to [View Full Entry]

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We arrived on Weds 9/3 and have now 5 days of experience. The apt is a little less than we hoped but OK--high ceilings, clean, just old and not a lot of comfortable places to sit. It has lots of room. It did not come with a coffee pot. We bought one right away! So far, the weather has been either hot and humid and they don't air condition anything here, not even banks, stores, etc. or hot but breezy so much more comfortable. It cools off nicely at night. The neighborhood area seems a little scary and there a lots [View Full Entry]

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Copy and paste this address onto the internet and you can see the rental info and pictures of where we are living. I'm sure it is so much nicer that this. http://sabbaticalhomes.com/OfferedDetails.aspx?id=28833&i=Home_Rental_House_For_Rent_Marseille_France [View Full Entry]

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